This confirms the AFU estimates of Russian KIA are accurate.
I see.
So it is your contention that this report (I read the original, FYI--something you clearly didn't do, but we'll come to that) confirms the amount of Russians KIA. That's what you believe. So let's build from here. Estimates for total active military personnel, Ukraine/Russia.
Source:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1296573/russia-ukraine-military-comparison/
So let's review:
The article which you have provided, and deem accurate also states that:
Ukraine similarly avoids publishing casualty figures for its own forces; however, Western intelligence estimates suggest they are also substantial. In April, a leaked U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment estimated that Kyiv had suffered 124,500-131,000 casualties, including 15,500-17,500 dead and 109,000-113,500 wounded.
So we have to assume therefore that you also believe this figure to be accurate. Unless of course you believe the article is bogus, which you do not, because you posted it. So what would this mean? Well, it means that AFU have lost--at the lowest estimate provided by the article--62% of their active forces. Russia, going by the numbers posted in the same article, at the very absolute top estimate, has lost 33% of its total active force.
Moving on, what could we assume if this rate of attrition exchange were to remain a constant? Simple; that Russia could lose as many forces as it allegedly already has, resulting in the loss of 66% of its active forces, and if Ukraine lost deployed forces at the rate it has been also, its active forces would cease to exist by the time Russia lost 66% of its active forces.
However, it's very unlikely that any of this data is in any way accurate. This is because being both lazy, and stupid, you didn't bother checking the source material reported in Newsweek (which has a media accuracy score ranking it at about 64%--Tisk Tisk). Ironically, your usual unexamined, shit-eating imbecility has saved you from this horrible self-own. You've more or less won gold at the Special Olympics, so well done for that.
Here's the Rub--translated from the original Russian:
The Ministry of Labor ordered 757,305 combat veteran certificates and 230,000 certificates for “family members of a deceased (deceased) disabled war veteran, participant in the Great Patriotic War and combat veteran”).” The initial cost of this work is estimated at 79 million rubles.
The documentation states that 600 thousand printed IDs of combatants will be distributed to the Ministry of Defense, 86,805 - to the Ministry of Social Protection, 60 thousand - to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 10 thousand - to the Russian Guard, 500 - to the Ministry of Construction. As for certificates for family members of the victims, 200 thousand will be distributed to the Ministry of Defense, another 30 thousand - to the Ministry of Social Protection.
Since June, the list of those who are entitled to certificates of a “family member of a deceased (deceased) disabled war veteran, participant in the Great Patriotic War and combat veteran” includes not only relatives of regular army soldiers, but also volunteers killed in the war.
Earlier, in May 2023, the department entered into a government contract worth 14 million rubles for printing documents, which also included 95,907 certificates of combat veterans and 23,716 for family members of the deceased.
Last year, the scale of ID printing was significantly smaller. In the summer of 2022, the Ministry of Labor ordered the printing of 82,840 forms of certificates for combat veterans and 5,777 certificates for family members of the deceased, the contract amount was 9.8 million rubles.
During the war, the Ministry of Labor has already ordered a total of 936,052 certificates for combat veterans .
According to State Procurement, the Ministry of Labor even before the war ordered the printing of certificate forms for combat veterans and family members of the dead. The number distributed to the Ministry of Defense was orders of magnitude smaller, and the number of certificates for family members of the deceased decreased from year to year. The certificates were received by family members of those killed in the Great Patriotic War, as well as during other conflicts.
Again, because you are both very stupid and lazy, and don't understand how to read methodologies, or really have any critical reasoning skills whatsoever, you've yet again fallen victim to editorialising. The way the figure you're citing is being presented is as though 270K Russian troops are confirmed dead, when in fact, that's not what the source material argues at all.
If you are being paid to shill.,.. well, you're a pretty shitty investment. Obligatory:
www.theguardian.com
