A BBC investigation suggests more than 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine. Researchers from the BBC and the independent Russian website Mediazona studied burial sites and other evidence. The Kremlin does not disclose official figures.
The war also continues to claim many Ukrainian lives. The latest Russian missile strike has killed 17 people and injured at least 70 more.
Ukraineโs President Zelensky called on his countryโs allies to offer the same support as they have shown to Israel. A $49 billion proposed new aid package is due to be voted on in Washington in the coming days.
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BBC has reported 1000+ casualties a day for Russia. What are they using for criteria, nosebleeds? Over 2 1/2 years of trench warfare, extremely accurate modern artillery and human wave tactics make the idea of only 50,000 dead a joke. I've seen consistent numbers over the last months of over 500,000+ Russian casualties, and with their disregard for their own wounded it takes a bonehead to believe the death rate is 10%.
2 days ago Newsweek reported 10,000 Russians dead in a week; even at a made-up 10-1 death ratio if they mean casualties, lower figures etc its been 124 weeks of fighting. Ive seen Ukraine reports of over 50,000 lost, and a friend in NATO says they arre told by their Army its around 70,000. The best attackers of an entrenched enemy able to consistently hold them back can possibly achieve is 3 dead for each Defender, so that's well over a minimum 200,000 dead Assaulters.
A search shows one claim Ukraine lost 50,000 since the invasion including civilians, & Russia 50,000 soldiers. I dont know what's true but I know numbers from WW I trenches to BS Vietnam claims of our forces vs. objective counts etc. Simple knowledge and Cro-Magnon mathematical levels would indicate Russis has lost at least 80k to 100,000, and maybe more than double that. With so many battalions reporting a few men left, so many bodies left where fhey lay to be buried or become flying flesh when the next shell hits I don't think anyone will know the truth until there's a new Government in Russia that thinks the public deserves to know how many of their own People Putin sacrificed atttacking Ukraine.
BBC the biggest lier of time
How many Ukrainians has zelensky sacrificed ? How many NATO soldiers died through incompetence of the west ? I would say triple
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50,000 Russian soldiers died vs 1.000.000 ukraine soldier died and 30.000 ukrainian soldier not burriet in wild jungle
The BBC could not find it's own ar*e with both hands it was 100 000 plus dead Russians l 8 months before this report .
500,000.
Amazing it always seems to come down to the support of the USA. Why doesn't Europe pay for 95% of the support since it's in their backyard?
BS itโs 200.000
Strange this because British intelligence who knows more than the BBC say 500 thousand dead and injured so your 10x wrong but the BBC is used to getting it wrong arnt you stealing British people's money with a TV licence none of ever had to have
Ukrainian men 650,000 DEAD … 1.2 million injured and 60/80,000 Amputees let that sink in ….. Why do you think Ukraine are pressganging men off the streets and dragging them to the front line !
They are losing all their porno boys
Do Russian zombie mushrooms count as casualties?
Americans Vietnam War: 58,000 deaths
Russians Battle of Bakhmut: 40,000
Propaganda
50,000 is more accurate rather than the over 500,000 and a 1000 a day nonsense claim
500,000 soldiers have died in Ukraine so far after many of them got sent their to do Mr. Putin's work to be trying to control more land and more people to be put under his thumbs. Under his thumbs while continuing to portray himself as being the strong man who cares for his Russian citizens (Including Ukranians living in the nation Ukraine which he says is land that has always been part of Russia. That is absurd while he knows it.)
This why white population is decreasing ๐คง
So.. even going by western Propaganda the death toll is 50k KIA for Russia and 30k for KIEV..
..that's why Russian army doesn't need to conscript anymore, and receives 30k volunteers A MONTH while the ukranians are scraping the barrel, asking for 500k more troops..
Reality is that Russia has AT LEAST a 5to1 KD ratio on Kiev, Mediazona data are more or less trustworthy.
Let assume 60k russian KIA to stay large.
We know kiev KD are in the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS. Some analist suspect more than 4-500k DEAD.
how do we know this?
Mass grave, satellite photo of cemeteries, suspected high numbers of "MIA" analysis of the few "public" data coming from inside the Kiev regime, estimates on battlefields strengths, reports by officers.. know casualties..
Kiev is a black hole of information. Nothing but propaganda comes out..
Stoltenberg speaks like the president of the country called NATO ๐คญ?. He also speaks like a true Nazi general of supposed great victories & glory, one day๐?.
Considering 27 million Russians died in Ww2 yet they still won..This is like a drop in the ocean
Over 570,000 Russian soldiers have died as of date 6/12/24. This is a big difference from what BBC incorrectly reports. BBC is usually wrong.
I have heard 500k in other media. Fact is, this war is killing a lot of people on both sides.
So thats why there are more women than men in Russia
Itโs interesting that all that is said in the description is that the war continues to claim Ukrainian lives. This is clearly avoidance of a grim reality and intended to sway public opinion in the West.
Two months ago Ukraine said 415,000 Russian soldiers killed and only 31,000 Ukrainians killed (not wounded) even though Russia was firing 10 times more precision guided artillery shells per day on Ukraine front lines. Every one is telling Tall stories.
50k would still be too high and still have russia advance since during the first days they brought in about 100K troops and then conscripted another 200K so russia has likely brought into ukraine 300-400K soldiers. Loosing 50K would mean frontline collapse or no advancing at all. But from the development around kharkiv it makes no sense to have lost 50K troops and still be able to advance. I believe the numbers of dead russian regular troops to be around 5K or so troops. For wagner forces and volunteers their numbers would likely be double so around 10K or so, in total could be around 15-20K dead or injured otherwise we would likely see an uprising in russia if 50K were unaccounted for.
Ei giornalista inglese dici guanti inglesi sono morti in ucraina che fai meglio di russi lo sanno i russi tu non sai un cazzo
Lying Western media. So it's no longer 350,000? Nonsense.
Not even close to being correct. But then again the BBC has always had a downer on Ukraine and underestimated Russian losses. Russia has now had more military deaths in two years of fighting in Ukraine than the UK and it's commonwealth nations lost in the entirety of World War Two. Russian losses are now over 400,000, a figure the MoD has given. The BBC can't seem to get anything right these days.
The script writer does not have a clue of the death tolls. Un-informed news casting. Don't let them work on your car.
Lots of Russian widows now.
1 year ago you guys were saying that russia is running out of missiles and today you are saying that russia is overwhelming the ukrainian air deffence system, so you guys were lying???
You cant count, its 35009
And 500,000 Ukrainians – so stop your BS crappy news
So way less than the figures quoted by the British, American and Ukrainian governments lol.
Untrusted sources just western hypocritical ๐. Where are Ukraine Numbers
BBC RESEARCH…..DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH…