Ukraine’s Military Claims Crushing Russian Losses in New Kharkiv Offensive

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1. Russian soldiers are dying in record numbers. As the Kremlin’s troops make massed attacks into the teeth of Ukrainian killer drones backed by new deliveries of artillery shells, the numbers have skyrocketed, according to official Kyiv counts, reports from Ukrainian combat units, and independent analysts.

   A Kremlin offensive launched in early May into Ukraine’s northeastern [Kharkiv](https://www.kyivpost.com/topic/kharkiv) region appeared to be the epicenter of the heavy Russian losses, with dead and wounded across all fronts numbering more than 1,000 men every 24 hours for the past two weeks, according to Armed Forces of Ukraine ([AFU](https://www.kyivpost.com/topic/armed-forces-of-ukraine)) official estimates.

   According to [analysis](https://www.vefgreining.com/2022/05/27/ukraine-war-dashboards/) compiled by Ragnar Gudmundsson, a leading tracker of losses on both sides of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the first half of May 2024 saw counts of Russian dead and wounded reach levels exceeding any two week period for the past 12 months, and likely for the entire war.

2. Not a OPSEC concern, straight from a News article.

3. The daily casualty figures bear out the surge in Russian losses over the past week.

4. What’s with this headline? Did they suffer or inflict crushing losses?

5. All this may, indeed, be accurate and true. However, russia will continue this offensive and start new ones. russian cannon fodder, Sri Lankan, Cuban, Indian . . . three years in and in many ways the 3-4 day special military operation has just begun.

6. Russia has taken record losses in the last 4 days. 6140 eliminated Russians in those four days for an average of 1540 Plus. 13th through 16th of May have been two for one days.