• AliasAKA@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is somewhat misleading. According to that Wikipedia page, just using the US estimates, Ukraine has had 70k deaths and Russia has had 120k+. While these are similar in that they both round to 100k perhaps, Russia has almost double the Ukrainian military personnel losses.

    War is miserable, but I don’t think Ukraine is losing military personnel by nearly the same clip that Russia is.

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      8 months ago

      The population ratio ia roughly 3:1 though, so even 120:70 is far from sustainable or winnable sadly. I’d imagine those numbers would be way better if the military aid was not drip fed…