Total russian combat losses in Ukraine as of September 3, 2026

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fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d (3 replies)

Russia's casualties since 2022 are about the same as US casualties for all military operations in the past 100 years.

MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Which includes WW2, when the US had about the same population as Russia has today. This is honestly insane.

fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d (1 reply)

WW2, Korea, Vietnam, both Iraq Wars, and Afghanistan - plus a few smaller conflicts

Unfortunately, Russia's metric for horrific losses is the USSR in WWII, so they've got millions of bodies to go before it's time for second thoughts.

MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d

Russian military deaths in WWI were about a third of what they had in WWII. It is hard to be specific, as it ended up in a revolution with the Soviet Union being created. The Soviet Afghan war, which was part of what ended the Soviet Union had significantly lower causalities then that.