Evidence please John .. Archived Message
Posted by Tomski on February 24, 2023, 11:03 pm, in reply to "Re:very dubious casculaty figures on both sides. And we know the BBC is seriously biased. "
You say: I don't believe Russian casualties are anything like 200,000 but I wouldn't be surprised if they're around 100,000 - you don't fight wars of attrition without suffering heavy causalities yourself. Based on your guess? You probably skipped my mention of BBC that has teamed up with Meduza on 13th Feb, in the thread above. It was found that 14093 RF soldiers have died since the war/SMO started, from open sources. I was advised this is the article I remembered: Mediazona/Meduza Mediazona and BBC News Russian publish further figures on Russia’s losses in Ukraine https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/02/13/mediazona-and-bbc-news-russian-publish-further-figures-on-russia-s-losses-in-ukraine Quote: 8:01 pm, February 13, 2023 Source: Meduza Mediazona and BBC News Russian, together with a group of volunteers, have confirmed the deaths of 14,093 Russian servicemen killed in the Ukraine war before February 12. They arrived at this total using only public records and other open sources. It goes on to say, in the next paragraph: That figure includes 1,082 Russians drafted under Vladimir Putin’s mobilization decree. Etc. This is roughly what I remembered. Funnily enough BBC have scrubbed the first paragraph now and left the second one in which doesn't tell one fa. I wonder why? . Check it out: BBC Russian https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-63917502 That figure of 14093 RF soldiers KIA *very* low, I know, but there you have it. Col Douglas Macgregor has stated 257,000 Ukie KIA (roughly on the 13 Feb) and *he has sources*. Shockingly high. Two authoritative sources neither hearsay (in my books) or guesses. It seems worse than you thought, no?
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