• space@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Afaik, it’s 315k casualties, not deaths, which basically means “unable to serve”. This includes dead, injured, captured, deserted etc. Also keep in mind that this is an Ukrainian estimate which might be inflated.

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      1 year ago

      The ratio is almost always 3:1 in all cases. And I think the US has corroborated Ukrainian numbers very closely in the past, so it’s probably a fair guess that 100k Russians have died.

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      basically means “unable to serve”. This includes dead, injured, captured, deserted etc.

      Ah, I didn’t know that. I now envision it sometimes going like:
      “Poor Steve, a casualty of war.”
      “What do you mean, he snuck back home and is watching TV in his mom’s basement!”