Talk about dying or being permanently handicapped, for, nothing… well, not entirely nothing, i suppose they’ve given the world a head’s up that they wanted to and have reclaimed their throne as pariah of the world
dickie_anderson99 on
Imagine how much embarrassment and stress Putin must feel every waking second of his day leading his country into such an unbelievably stupid mistake
postusa2 on
The shocking part that Europe needs to wake up to is that it hasn’t made Puin flinch. To you and I, Russias war is devastating, an embarrassment, a surprising show of ineptitude and disorganization. But to Putin, he sees those piles of dead russians gaping into the sky as decorations for murals to rival those of Stalin’s great war. And much more than territory or Russias position in geopolitics, that is ultimately what this is about. His ego, his self image, his control at home, his fear that Russians would look over their border to a better quality of life.
The false premise of the peace deal is that it is territory the man wants. What he really wants is just war for the sake of it, and no peace deal is going to satisfy him. Even if he signs it, it would just be to regroup.
Some wars just have to be won.
LifeIsRadInCBad on
The source for these numbers appears to be Ukraine.
I’d really be interested in a leak from Russia on the numbers.
*edit because too many to reply to: “leak” implies moderately honest numbers (in as much as they might exist), as compared to a Russian “release” of stats.*
steve_ample on
Meat wave tactics not seen since the days of Stalin. Because the thinking is the same – expendable lives are to be expended.
stayathmdad on
Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen
Share
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Arrrchitect on
It’s wild how the people of Russia let Putin tread all over them and send them to their deaths. The people of Russia need to understand that Putin is their enemy.
battleofflowers on
I have not seen a Russian tank in a very long time – did they run out of tanks?
WolfRetention on
Those total losses getting really close to the whole population of Estonia, their next target if they ever get so far
frugalerthingsinlife on
That’s a shame. I hope they find them 😁
Ok_Huckleberry5240 on
And here’s to them losing 1.2 million more
Successful-Coach-525 on
I’m fortunate to have been adopted by an American family and moved out of Russia. I keep in touch a lot with people I grew up with, a few of them have been married 4 or 5 times within the past couple of years and their husbands keep going MIA in Ukraine but they are doing pretty well now.
IgnorantlyHopeful on
Wars are fought to your strengths and the enemies weakness.
Mundane_Locksmith_28 on
These estimated Russian deaths come straight from the Ukraine General Staff. Which can’t eeven pay their own government employees. But this is gospel. THis is honesty. This is truth. This is reality. This is reddit. LOL. Goofballs. Every other estimate maxes out at ~400k. But reddit. OMG Babushkas, shovels, washingmachine parts. Russia is defeated, Vladivistok is Falling!!! Profound! Also, Russia is going to occupy Portugal so keep sending those cards and letters.
Majestic-Collar-2675 on
It’s gotten to the point where Putin is dependent on North Korea. That ain’t good.
ZLUCremisi on
Saddly most are probably foriegners and ethic minorities.
randomname347 on
Russians have a history of throwing away entire armies and still winning. They do not give a fuck about their soldiers life, do not underestimate their zeal…
Crying_Reaper on
This entire war is such a fantastic study in how effective a good defense is and how hard it is to break a defender that is fighting to not lose.
series-hybrid on
There were times over the last few years when Russia used prison convicts, and draftees, and soldiers from North Korea, etc…but they have also frequently needed to use real experienced combat troops for important goals. Its been three years, and now, almost all of the experienced and trained troops have been killed.
Captured and surrendered troops have said they were drafted off the street and were given a weeks worth of training which basically boiled down to “follow orders”. My point is that the current Russian army is not made of of “special forces”. Far from it.
“The meat waves will continue until morale improves”
Incredible that there is no externally perceivable signs of unrest in Russia
Pristine-Substance-1 on
But hey! Their territory is now 0.5% larger
Minimum-Ad-8056 on
All that death just to gain a tiny sliver of land when they already have more land than most anyone else.
jaegren on
“…Sources within Ukraine’s General Staff.”
Warpropagnda-101
Pantango69 on
Google says they have 1.3 million troops active total for the country, and you are telling me that 1.2 million died? Where did you get this crazy number from? So there are only 100k active troops left? At this point Ukraine should be able to win easily.
Puzzleheaded-Ad-9181 on
This number is inflated.. most of them probably just fled the war and are living in another country.
enterisys on
It will only get worse.
imadork1970 on
Plus, an unknown total of troops from NK.
Beginning-2-Smell on
I’m so confused how it is possible to lead a strong nation like Russia into a pretty much unexplainable war. Just imagine the power for good they could have been in the world. They could have prospered. What’s going on right now, everything seems so counter-productive in every aspect
ImmediateOne9000 on
To what? I don’t understand how Ukranian army could be killing this many can someone explain?
Fluffer-fluf on
That’s about 1/65 of total men. They have plenty left for the meat grinder
Underp0pulation on
Putin’s legacy
NyriasNeo on
You can thank the murderous war criminal Putin for this.
Shivamrocks5039 on
Until Ukraine reveals their own losses , can’t beleive this too. Both sides have been batterted by drones and missiles. Still Ukraine is hiding it’s casuality reports.
Cabalist_writes on
Probably why the info war and sponsorship of Russia friendly right wing parties is on the rise, more overt and more aggressive – to stymie any responses across Europe..the US is already compromised, the EU is slow to react and overly cautious, and no one wants to be the one with their head above the parapet.
And the irony is with the info war ongoing, things like Reform in the UK will gain traction and help Russia, which will give the Russians breathing space to fully co-opt their border nations if they want.
That’s the worst case scenario. We need to commit early and fast, nip it in the bud an actively remove Russian data centres or the ability to use bot farms. But modern governments don’t think in those terms, and we want to preserve global Internet infrastructure. I can’t see how we do it without extreme damage across borders in both digital and physical terms.
SnooHesitations1020 on
One way or another, Putin’s days are numbered.
Michael_Schmumacher on
Daily reminder that casualties =/= deaths.
FullAFwar on
Just disposing of unwanted men, no worries. /s
LeroyJenkies on
It sounds like Putin’s just feeding Russian soldiers to drones.
no_choice99 on
How many people gained due to Oblast abduction though? Looks like a net gain to me.
New-Additions on
At least this will cause major population decline
rg2004 on
What’s the death rate? Who signs up for this?
SPNKLR on
…good thing they didn’t have a population/birth crisis before their invasion…
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Talk about dying or being permanently handicapped, for, nothing… well, not entirely nothing, i suppose they’ve given the world a head’s up that they wanted to and have reclaimed their throne as pariah of the world
Imagine how much embarrassment and stress Putin must feel every waking second of his day leading his country into such an unbelievably stupid mistake
The shocking part that Europe needs to wake up to is that it hasn’t made Puin flinch. To you and I, Russias war is devastating, an embarrassment, a surprising show of ineptitude and disorganization. But to Putin, he sees those piles of dead russians gaping into the sky as decorations for murals to rival those of Stalin’s great war. And much more than territory or Russias position in geopolitics, that is ultimately what this is about. His ego, his self image, his control at home, his fear that Russians would look over their border to a better quality of life.
The false premise of the peace deal is that it is territory the man wants. What he really wants is just war for the sake of it, and no peace deal is going to satisfy him. Even if he signs it, it would just be to regroup.
Some wars just have to be won.
The source for these numbers appears to be Ukraine.
I’d really be interested in a leak from Russia on the numbers.
*edit because too many to reply to: “leak” implies moderately honest numbers (in as much as they might exist), as compared to a Russian “release” of stats.*
Meat wave tactics not seen since the days of Stalin. Because the thinking is the same – expendable lives are to be expended.
Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen
Share
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
It’s wild how the people of Russia let Putin tread all over them and send them to their deaths. The people of Russia need to understand that Putin is their enemy.
I have not seen a Russian tank in a very long time – did they run out of tanks?
Those total losses getting really close to the whole population of Estonia, their next target if they ever get so far
That’s a shame. I hope they find them 😁
And here’s to them losing 1.2 million more
I’m fortunate to have been adopted by an American family and moved out of Russia. I keep in touch a lot with people I grew up with, a few of them have been married 4 or 5 times within the past couple of years and their husbands keep going MIA in Ukraine but they are doing pretty well now.
Wars are fought to your strengths and the enemies weakness.
These estimated Russian deaths come straight from the Ukraine General Staff. Which can’t eeven pay their own government employees. But this is gospel. THis is honesty. This is truth. This is reality. This is reddit. LOL. Goofballs. Every other estimate maxes out at ~400k. But reddit. OMG Babushkas, shovels, washingmachine parts. Russia is defeated, Vladivistok is Falling!!! Profound! Also, Russia is going to occupy Portugal so keep sending those cards and letters.
It’s gotten to the point where Putin is dependent on North Korea. That ain’t good.
Saddly most are probably foriegners and ethic minorities.
Russians have a history of throwing away entire armies and still winning. They do not give a fuck about their soldiers life, do not underestimate their zeal…
This entire war is such a fantastic study in how effective a good defense is and how hard it is to break a defender that is fighting to not lose.
There were times over the last few years when Russia used prison convicts, and draftees, and soldiers from North Korea, etc…but they have also frequently needed to use real experienced combat troops for important goals. Its been three years, and now, almost all of the experienced and trained troops have been killed.
Captured and surrendered troops have said they were drafted off the street and were given a weeks worth of training which basically boiled down to “follow orders”. My point is that the current Russian army is not made of of “special forces”. Far from it.
“The meat waves will continue until morale improves”
Feeding their [poor](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/06/poorer-russian-regions-conscripting-more-soldiers-investigation-says-a79002), [foreign fighters](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-08/russia-recruitment-of-foreign-fighters-increases/106096108), and [woke phobic Americans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmxIcfyMatE) into the meat grinder. I feel bad for two of those groups.
Incredible that there is no externally perceivable signs of unrest in Russia
But hey! Their territory is now 0.5% larger
All that death just to gain a tiny sliver of land when they already have more land than most anyone else.
“…Sources within Ukraine’s General Staff.”
Warpropagnda-101
Google says they have 1.3 million troops active total for the country, and you are telling me that 1.2 million died? Where did you get this crazy number from? So there are only 100k active troops left? At this point Ukraine should be able to win easily.
This number is inflated.. most of them probably just fled the war and are living in another country.
It will only get worse.
Plus, an unknown total of troops from NK.
I’m so confused how it is possible to lead a strong nation like Russia into a pretty much unexplainable war. Just imagine the power for good they could have been in the world. They could have prospered. What’s going on right now, everything seems so counter-productive in every aspect
To what? I don’t understand how Ukranian army could be killing this many can someone explain?
That’s about 1/65 of total men. They have plenty left for the meat grinder
Putin’s legacy
You can thank the murderous war criminal Putin for this.
Until Ukraine reveals their own losses , can’t beleive this too. Both sides have been batterted by drones and missiles. Still Ukraine is hiding it’s casuality reports.
Probably why the info war and sponsorship of Russia friendly right wing parties is on the rise, more overt and more aggressive – to stymie any responses across Europe..the US is already compromised, the EU is slow to react and overly cautious, and no one wants to be the one with their head above the parapet.
And the irony is with the info war ongoing, things like Reform in the UK will gain traction and help Russia, which will give the Russians breathing space to fully co-opt their border nations if they want.
That’s the worst case scenario. We need to commit early and fast, nip it in the bud an actively remove Russian data centres or the ability to use bot farms. But modern governments don’t think in those terms, and we want to preserve global Internet infrastructure. I can’t see how we do it without extreme damage across borders in both digital and physical terms.
One way or another, Putin’s days are numbered.
Daily reminder that casualties =/= deaths.
Just disposing of unwanted men, no worries. /s
It sounds like Putin’s just feeding Russian soldiers to drones.
How many people gained due to Oblast abduction though? Looks like a net gain to me.
At least this will cause major population decline
What’s the death rate? Who signs up for this?
…good thing they didn’t have a population/birth crisis before their invasion…