Posted on 05/24/2023 7:09:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russia’s winter push in Ukraine may have made little progress and at a “stunning” cost.
More than 100,000 fighters from the Kremlin’s forces have been killed or wounded since December alone, the U.S. now estimates — outlining Moscow's massive losses as its military leaders scramble to recruit more men and prepare for an impending counteroffensive.
The figure, if accurate, could spell trouble ahead for President Vladimir Putin. He faces a second year at war with the land he seized increasingly in Kyiv's sights and with his military's struggles forcing the Kremlin to balance battlefield necessities with domestic pressures.
The casualty figure includes around 20,000 Russians who have been killed in about six months, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday, citing newly declassified American intelligence that the Kremlin swiftly rejected.
For comparison, around 4,500 American troops were killed during the invasion of Iraq.
"It's really stunning, these numbers," Kirby said.
Half of those killed were from the Wagner mercenary group, the majority of whom were ex-convicts “thrown into combat” in Bakhmut, Kirby said, who lacked “sufficient combat training, combat leadership or any sense of organizational command and control.”
The eastern mining city has turned into something of a modern day Stalingrad and became the focus of a Russian winter offensive that was fueled by the call-up of hundreds of thousands of military reservists but that has failed to make substantive progress.
Both sides have suffered heavy losses in and around the city, with their armies bogged down in a brutal battle of attrition that has seen Russian troops make steady incremental gains but fall short of what would be a symbolic victory.
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Of course the Ukes got out with only a skinned knee.
NBC.
I thought they were out of business. Bots only.
If they mention the Biden criminal actions we’ll know it is still real people.
I seem to remember hearing this before.
Along with no ammo and 1960s tanks.
“Of course the Ukes got out with only a skinned knee.”
I wonder if their next story will be about Hitler’s Grandson still holding out in Berlin.
They kept respawning...
Fake, like everything else coming from these sources/sphincters.
How long have we been hearing these doom-and-gloom predictions? Do the propagandists ever move on to something believable?
Wagner convict troops are just like ISIS jihadists.
“I mean, you take your average Russki, 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)
20 million russkies gave their lives in defense of their homeland from the nazi’s of the 1940’s. And the people remember it & celebrate their heroes.
100k, a likely gross exaggeration, hardly dips into the well. Ukes running around with nazi symbols on their uniforms & driving Panzers doesn’t help them, either.
Day 454 of two weeks to kick Ukraine’s ass. Did Pootin have something to do with COVID response?
NBC, quoting Kirby, passing on information from Ukraine. Man, it just doesn’t get any more rocksolid than that lol.
51 “ intelligence “ sources leaked this narrative to NBC.
Donald Trump:
“I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,” Trump said at CNN’s town hall moderated by “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins.
…he doesn’t “think in terms of winning and losing.”
“I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said.
Donald Trump:
“I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,” Trump said at CNN’s town hall moderated by “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins.
…he doesn’t “think in terms of winning and losing.”
“I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said.
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