Thoughts on casualties
Looking at the various reports for numbers of Russian casualties/ captured, the Ukrainian MOD numbers are daft, but reputable sources are saying perhaps as many as 5,000 killed/injured, with perhaps as many as an additional 8,000-10,000 captured from a strength of 190,000 Most of which won’t be front line infantry (they’ll be drivers, cooks, artillery gunners, loaders, tank drivers, radio, logistics and so on and on). Maybe as few as 40,000 – 45,000 will be infantry. Normal rule of thumb says an army has a third fighting, a third held, and a third in reserves, replenishing and resting, so that’s about 13,000 soldiers at a time fighting in 4 or 5 battle areas that aren’t joined up, are totally static (so not mutually supportive) and have been since pretty much the beginning of March. Perhaps as much as a third of their fighting infantry capacity gone so far. No aircraft support no helicopter support, or medical evacuation/rescue. And these are some of the “elite” of the Russian Army This is unsustainable in every sense.
In country there are estimated to be 20 Generals, 5 of which are known to have been killed so far. That alone is going to have a huge impact on this army’s ability to fight battles against well armed and motivated Ukrainian forces There’s been difficulties with logistics; food, and weaponry and replacement vehicles and all the other things that a army this size needs, and no new large numbers troops have been to deployed to relive forces who’ve been fighting now for as long as 3 weeks. Again unsustainable in every sense.
What a waste of all those lives, both Russian soldiers and the civilians that have died, on the absolute nonsense of one man’s vanity victimhood.
