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NATO estimates up to 40k Russian troops have been captured, injured or killed

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The article doesn't say how many Russian troops in total have been deployed to fight in Ukraine, but apparently "Estimates of the total number of Russian forces involved in the invasion of Ukraine vary between 100,000 and 200,000."

If 40% of the invasion force has already been neutralised, then the war won't last another month. That may be wishful thinking, but it means we could at least be close to finding out whose estimates are worth believing.

https://marketrealist.com/p/how-many-russian-troops-in-ukrai...

If Russians have deployed 100k and 40k has been neutralised it does not mean that 40% has been neytralised, rather it means that 40k will be replenished. As Russians joke in such situations, women will birth another ones. My opinion is that having more than 200k is kind of too expensive and as we all know, stopping the war is absolutely not an option for Putin.

It’s shocking to me how Russia’s primary mode of bombardment isn’t aerial. Are they holding back or they legitimately trying to use dumb bombs to eradicate civilian cities?

There’s no no-fly zone, you can do the same atrocities from air and not risk your troops. What am I missing here?

NATO has a vested interest in increasing the number of casualties. Russia has a vested interest in decreasing the number of casualties.

We will only know the truth years after the event (if ever).

Yes you are right, but as a Ukrainian living 100-200km from Russian border I have not seen any Russians yet but several times I have seen some Russian vehicles being towed somewhere by ours. That means their campaign is not even close to success.

Probably never.

The real news in there is the 10k KIA number from Komsomolskaya Pravda..

Even going on the lower bound of the US estimate of 7k KIA, the situation is going to have political implications in Moscow soon if the casualties and lack of movement continue.

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