The entire piece operates on the same methodology as a Ukrainian government handout on Russian casualties.

Even though its fantasy, they non the less need to find some kind of realistic guide or baseline for the figure so they use what's closest at hand: which is of course their own casualty numbers.

The latter are a state secret but the inadvertent truth hidden in the above "methodology" means all you need do are reverse the figures to discover the ukrainian dead.

-This article is a classic of the inadvertent tell" genre. Reverse all the presented "facts" and you have a disclosure of something closely resembling the truth...