Posted on 03/09/2024 4:27:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Satellite pictures capturing the massive expansion of Russian military cemeteries prove the “huge cost” of the Ukraine war for Moscow’s army, according to experts.
The “startling” pictures show cemeteries linked to elite units such as the Guards Airborne Division, the Guards Motorised Division and the Wagner Mercenary group have all grown substantially in size since the invasion began in February 2022.
Although Russia does not provide a death toll for its soldiers, the pictures – provided by Maxar Technologies and obtained by The Telegraph and National Security News – add weight to Western estimates of significant losses.
Images of just one section of Moscow’s Tula cemetery, for example, show the numbers of graves have roughly quadrupled between October 2021 and April 2023.
The nearby Bogorodskoye cemetery has had a whole new section added during that time, apparently tripling its size.
Both are near Ryazan, in western Russia, where units of the 106th Guards Airborne Division are based, according to Maxar, a private US-based satellite company.
Troops from that division took part in the opening battles of the war in Ukraine and also later fought in operations in the Bakhmut area along with Wagner forces.
Western intelligence estimates suggest that as many as 20,000 Russian troops could have been killed in the fight for Bakhmut.
Col Philip Ingram, a former British Army intelligence officer and Nato planner, described the images as “startling”.
They show “the huge price Russian conscripts are paying”, he said.
“I am not surprised at the clear growth in cemeteries near bases as Russia is losing more than 900 troops a day at the moment for minimal territorial gains.
“The Russian losses in the battle for Avdiivka, where over 16,000 of their soldiers died are testament to that.”
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Or, just 31,000 Ukrainian KIAs.
As far as you know.
Whatever the number is, its not 31,000.
Yep. Putin’s legacy on display. Sad, stupid and evil.
Sad, indeed. Here we have Christians killing each other in great numbers over relatively minor things. In many ways, it’s a repeat of the idiocy of WW 1.
It’s just on a smaller scale, so far anyway.
Hmm. Wonder why there hasn’t been any airborne drops into Ukraine. Seems like the perfect opportunity
“Yep. Putin’s legacy on display. Sad, stupid and evil.”
You mean Brandon and his buttbuddy big z.
Ukrainians aren’t dying in the war?
Do you know how many Libyans died in the 12 years of civil war after we bombed them?
Biden’s butt buddy is Neil;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io5ulHvLAkU
I agree.
Putin has also done a great job of increasing business for Russia’s funeral homes and coffin-building industry
Boom times!
I despise Jobama oBiden, but it’s Putin’s army who are killing their neighbors and Putin’s cemeteries filling up.
No war and none of this would be happening. There was no war until Putin brought one.
No, I don’t. How many Libyans died and what does that have to do with Putin’s war on Ukraine?
Probably not and yes, I have.
Babbling about Putin being evil when we’re responsible for more dead is hypocrisy.
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