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submitted 1 week ago by HowRu68@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

Russia is losing about 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit, western officials have said.

While Russia is still acquiring new battlefield recruits at speed, with an estimated rate of 1,000 a day, in the last two months even this has not been sufficient to replace those killed or injured.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 40 points 1 week ago

And Ukraine needs 30k/month aka the same recruitment rate. All those poor men flung into a needless war. May Ukraine survive and come out victorious!

[-] robear@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Do they? Defenders traditionally only need 1/3rd the manpower of the attacker.

[-] futurepoint@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From what we know loss ratio is more like 1:6-1:10 in this war.

Ukraine uses strategies that minimise human losses while russia does the opposite.

[-] decolo@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

dies the opposite, indeed

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

That's a good average for historical wars. We don't have much data on defenders with flying grenade robots against a foe that relies on meat waves. Hopefully we never do again.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago
[-] robear@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Interesting, thanks for the source.

[-] DirtSona@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

How many soldiers does Russia have at the moment? I.e. how many would -6k a month be. When should this mean that they would be stopping the advances?

[-] abc@suppo.fi 1 points 6 days ago
[-] DirtSona@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago
[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It has what it sends forward. Training from sign up is measured in days to weeks and then you are frontline.

They are said to be mobikising 300k. Currently it is likely they have emptied prisons, black sites and recruited foreigners under false pretences ad are accepting full divisions from NK.

[-] DirtSona@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Numbers would be great. Otherwise I can't really tell what this news says.

[-] shartgargle@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago
[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Ayyo. Why your gif have a fuckin crypto ad baked into it?

[-] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Probably out of a discord gif selection, I've seen it come up there before. Some sort of Guerilla marketing campaign that probably outlived the crypto scam.

[-] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've invented a machine that turns wealth into poverty! I called it WAR!

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