> I find it kind of astonishing people are citing Ukrainian numbers as anything short of blatant propaganda, just like Russian ones. US reports are worthless,

> I find it kind of astonishing people are citing Ukrainian numbers as anything short of blatant propaganda, just like Russian ones. US reports are worthless, because it has no soldiers on the ground. The extremely high Russian casualty rate has been reported by multiple independent sources from inside Russia. For instance: > "Everyone went to the SVO," Astashov told RFE/RL, using the acronym for "special military operation," the euphemism the Kremlin has insisted on using when discussing the war in Ukraine. > According to Astashov, the size of the brigade when it deployed was about 1,500 troops. The total number of dead, by Astashov's estimate: "At least several hundred." https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-army-casualty-rate-64th-brigade-bucha-deaths/31982194.html https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-army-casualty-rate-64th-briga... Also, many huge Russian loses in Ukraine were confirmed by NATO countries with visuals: > The British defense ministry on Friday said satellite imagery has confirmed that Ukrainian forces decimated a Russian battalion as it tried to cross a series of pontoon bridges over a river in northeast Ukraine earlier this week, a dramatic setback for Russian forces already struggling to make significant progress along the eastern front. > Russian battalion groups generally have between 700 and 1,000 men. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/world/europe/ukraine-russian-forces-pontoon-bridges-river.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/world/europe/ukraine-russ...