Russia has lost 87% of troops it had prior to war

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/12/politics/russia-troop-losses-us-intelligence-assessment/index.html

Russia has lost a staggering 87 percent of the total number of active-duty ground troops it had prior to launching its invasion of Ukraine and two-thirds of its pre-invasion tanks, a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress told CNN.

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Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

How can Russia possibly keep going with such a massive loss? I know that at this point it's probably just sunk cost fallacy, but my goodness.

Heir_Of_Isildur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

At this point it's going to become like 1916/17 where very little changed on the battlefields, vut men were dying every day. All because of a "strong" man

kerrigan778@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I'm kind of surprised they've lost more people than tanks considering how much they were giving them away to every Ukrainian farmer.

TheDeepState@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

More meat for the grinder.