Kremlin says Russia has suffered 'significant losses' in Ukraine

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: Reuters

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia had sustained "significant losses" in Ukraine, which its troops entered on Feb. 24 in what it calls a "special military operation".

Russia's defence ministry said on March 25, its most recent update, that 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the campaign, and 3,825 had been wounded.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said two days later that at least 10,000 Russian soldiers had probably been killed.

"We have significant losses of troops," Peskov told the British channel Sky News in an interview, "and it's a huge tragedy for us."

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-russia-has-suffered-significant-losses-ukraine-2022-04-07/

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[qwlauren35]

1. OK, now what?

Putin knows he's losing.

It's possible that this will actually make Russian news.

Are Russian men and women still going to line up to enlist, or be drafted?

Are they still going to buy into the madness?

[Warpy]

12. Wars are fought by the young

and the young, especially in towns and cities, were against this one. The difference> Unlike their elders, they were online. They'd watched videos from Ukraine, knew people in Ukraine online. They thought Putin was totally out to lunch with his talk about Ukraine overrun by Nazis, something that ended before he was born.

They'll have to be conscripted. Once conscripted, they'll be typically unenthusiastic about shooting people who look like their parents and grandparents for the crime of defending their homes.

Their parents and grandparents will be enthusiastically pro war. I feel sorry for the kids. I know just what they're going through. I'm an old boomer who suffered through the sheer idiocy of the Vietnam War.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

22. Putin will just send in more Chechen murderers and rapists, he don't care about body counts

[brush]

2. If they admited that many, ya know it's a lot more.

[Otto_Harper]

3. The rule of thumb with China is 10X. I wonder if Russia is the same? (NT)

[Warpy]

15. The guesstimates I've seen range from 7000 to 10,000.

I think both are likely conservative.

10,000 dead in a month would have gotten us out of any stupid war this country has been in over the last 77 years, and we've generally had about twice Russia's population.

It seems the Putin regime is stonewalling families who want to know why their texts have gone unanswered for days, weeks, over a month. I just wonder how much longer that is going to work.

[calimary]

21. There are lots of me ms, wives, girlfriends, and grandmas who will

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start asking questions. Maybe just a few to start. But the longer this drags on and their loved ones don’t return home, I’d guess the questions are going to become all-encompassing, and deafening.

And after awhile, Vlad won’t be able to dance his way around it. I hope he doesn’t start taking it out on those waiting in an impossible and expanding void.

I know I’d want the truth if I hadn’t heard from my son or husband in awhile! Not sure what, if any, recourse they have, though. But Dear God, being mired in that - for untold stretches of time - with no answers and no one to turn to…

A VERY “special” place down in the bowels of Hell awaits Vlad the Instigator, methinks.

[getagrip_already]

10. a while back the estimates were 15k kia, 30k mia/injured/captured/deserted...

It's probably twice that now.

90k out of action is almost 2/3'rds of what they started with.

Poor boobalahs.

[COL Mustard]

16. Poor war criminals

Fixed it for you. From Generals of the Army down to Ryadovoy (Privates) they are almost all guilty.

[CaptainTruth]

4. Truth. Russia has lost at least a generation in terms of joining the modern world.

The entire development of their country has been set back by a generation, at least, probably more, because if they continue on this path they will continue to be international pariahs.

[brush]

7. Right. Putin is acting like it's the '50s when Kruschchev rolled...

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Russian tanks into Hungary.

They've had two great chances to choose democracy—the 1917 revolution when they threw off the czar, and 1989 when the iron curtain and the Soviet Union fell. Each time they eventually chose a strongman. And there probably have been innumerable opportunities to take out Stalin or Khrushchev or Brezhnev, or in Putin's case, use poison, his preferred method.


Hell, even here in our democracy we attempt assassinations all the time (sad to say, but true).

Must be in their pysche. Grow some cajones, Rooskies.

[peppertree]

14. Well said. It's all they've ever known: Tsars, dictators, and despots.

Gorbachev was probably the closest Russians have ever experienced to good governance.

In that sense, they're a little like people in those impoverished African countries - many of which have only had a handful of democratic years in 60+ of independence.

And few if any years under competent leadership of any kind.

It gets hard to imagine - let alone expect - anything else.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. Gorbachev said a few years ago: "It seems as if the world is preparing for war." He knew it was

coming; something was starting. Would love to sit down with that man for a few hours. He had (has) a heart and a soul, unlike Vlad.

[brush]

24. I remember. He was a formidable, sophisticated...

leader and many of us were wondering if Reagan would be up to the task of negotiating with him, as Reagan was beginning to show signs of dementia back then.

We perhaps dodged a bullet as the Russians didn't know what they had and he was forced to resign.

[oldsoftie]

17. And 100s of thousands of their brightest have fled the country, which will slow them more.

As the "smart" Russians make a life elsewhere, only the rubes are left to work the country. No IT advances. No new new innovations. Etc

[CaptainTruth]

20. That's an excellent point that I think is often missed.

The smart creative inspired entrepreneurs in Russia, the ones that could drive advances in their society, will leave.

If they have the brains & the resources to launch companies that can truly bring innovative change to Russian society, then they certainly have the brains & resources to LEAVE Russia & go somewhere where their success & accomplishments won't be hamstrung by the limitations of Russian infrastructure (& I'm including ability to trade & otherwise interact with the rest of the world in "infrastructure," it's all part of the same pie).

[brush]

25. Russia's loss. The west will benefit. Maybe that's why...

Russia is in the state it is. How many times has that cycled repeated itself under the procession of strongmen they keep opting for?

I'm sure many fled as fast as they could under Stalin, then Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and now Putin.

[alittlelark]

5. They will play that clip to PROVE that 'Ukrainian Nazis' r evil

Russia is in a propaganda matrix.

[smb]

6. How Could They Be Doing So Poorly With Such Well-Trained Professionals?

Link to tweet

[msongs]

8. yeah but was it broadcast to people IN Russia? nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. So dead Russian soldiers NOT fake, Ukraine civilian bodies ARE fake.

Got it Kremlin.

[BlueIdaho]

11. No Mercy, No Sympathy.

They have no one to blame but themselves.

[Aussie105]

13. Putin is changing his tactics.

He has significant losses, and knows he cannot take over Ukraine easily, or at all.

He has changed to a scorched earth policy, destroy everything and leave large parts of Ukraine in ruins.

Those Russian troops who don't wish to participate, are best advised to get out of their 'Z' branded vehicles and walk away. Dump your weapons, dump your uniforms, just walk away.

Ukraine is suffering, so is the citizenry of Russia. Only time before Putin himself suffers too.

[oldsoftie]

18. And the WORLD must help UKR rebuild

[marie999]

23. We helped Germany and Japan and they were our enemies.

We should do a lot more for our friend.