Posted on 04/17/2024 10:04:26 AM PDT by RandFan
Russia's military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark, the BBC can confirm.
In the second 12 months on the front line - as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy - we found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year.
BBC Russian, independent media group Mediazona and volunteers have been counting deaths since February 2022.
New graves in cemeteries helped provide the names of many soldiers.
Our teams also combed through open-source information from official reports, newspapers and social media.
More than 27,300 Russian soldiers died in the second year of combat - according to our findings - a reflection of how territorial gains have come at a huge human cost.
Russia has responded to the BBC's report saying only the defence ministry in Moscow can give this kind of information.
The term meat grinder has been used to describe the way Moscow sends waves of soldiers forward relentlessly to try to wear down Ukrainian forces and expose their locations to Russian artillery.
The overall death toll - of more than 50,000 - is eight times higher than the only official public acknowledgement of fatality numbers ever given by Moscow in September 2022.
The actual number of Russian deaths is likely to be much higher.
Our analysis does not include the deaths of militia in Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk - in eastern Ukraine. If they were added, the death toll on the Russian side would be even higher.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
8 thou to go to beat the US losses in Nam
Hang on, I thought the total Russian dead in Ukraine was somewhere in the vicinity of 300,000? These numbers keep changing, and not in a reliable way.
Good job Ukraine !
Yep, 58,220 US in Vietnam. No sympathy for Russian invaders from me.
The BBC and “Mediazona” confirms................
Mediazona set up for the Ukraine war reporting.....
Please Donate:
Am I wrong to infer that you agree with the killing of 58k U.S. soldiers in Vietnam because the U.S. invaded Vietnam?
My neighbor of close to 25 years wonderful man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEJ_yWd-U4w&t=22s
You would be wrong
And we did not invade S. Vietnam.
Agreed
Wait, it sounds like you buy the communist narrative. The U.S. intervened in a civil war, on one of the sides.
Still waiting for Ukraine losses.
a very conservative estimate, the actual number is likely over 130,000 dead, as casualties are well past 456,000.
Not what I was intending to imply at all. My point was simple and its not original here on FR. We lost 58,000 supporting S. Vietnam and the bulk of the losses were a result of Soviet supplying of arms to communist N. Vietnam. That was over a decade or more. The russians have lost 50k plus in two years of their ‘special military op’ (invasion) of Ukraine and they bitch about US or NATO support. Russia can piss up a rope.
Now not to get all wound up in the Zeeper vs Putinista waste of time argument, my support of the Ukraine is not to say I support corrupt government anywhere, not here in the US, not in Ukraine, and not in Russia. I also know we have problems here at home that need to be dealt with (borders, spending, etc) But evil, unopposed, begets evil. So I do support efforts to make this invasion by russia as painful as possible for russia for as long as they are there.
You dont have to wait, they are high. You would expect them to be given the disparity of force. Ukraine was, and remains, the underdog in this conflict (that they did not initiate).
Special deal for friends of RIck, 39,375 deaths. Whatever the number it’s just the BBC branch of MI-6 spouting propaganda. How about some more COVID/Trump Russia conspiracy/no widespread voter fraud propaganda.
shilling alert
OOh, the BBC!! The northern office of Hamas, apparently. Yeah, accept those numbers.
"Mr. Ambassador, I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he's got. Hell, lookit all them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn't quit." - General "Buck" Turgidson (Dr. Strangelove, 1964).
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