Ukrainian war dead reaches 43,000, Zelensky says in rare update

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv75nydy3o

23 comments
  1. Is that 0.14% of the population?
    There’s no good way to say this but “that doesn’t seem too bad?” popped into my head. I’ll probably delete this depending on how much I get destroyed.

  2. There has to be a tremendous amount of “indirect” deaths via routine daily attacks on infrastructure.

  3. 43,000 confirmed battlefield deaths. There are literally thousands of MiA yet to be confirmed. Both sides delay confirming as it slows down payouts to relatives.

  4. Adding another 0 to that figure would probably be more accurate

  5. For how long is this war now going on 2 or 3 years? I can’t imagine how tried they must be but kuddos to him and the military not surrending to russia. Russia now exhausted in ukraine had even to step away from syria.

  6. That number is a lie. I understand why and I don’t blame Zelenskyy but the actual number is much higher

  7. War propaganda at its finest. I’ll take the US estimate over a Ukrainian or Russian estimate any day.

  8. This figure doesn’t include the MIA right? (Who are generally lying dead but undiscovered/unverified across the eastern front.)

    Also this number is a bit of a joke, but I understand it’s necessary to keep morale up and make potential recruits think it’s not going as badly as thought. Their death toll is far far higher than 43k I mean come on. Ukrainians themselves are casting serious doubts on this. How is everyone gobbling this up?

  9. Not counting the MIA? These numbers are way too low considering the level of fighting going on

  10. Propaganda, fog of war, call it what you will, Ukraine with (emphasis on) support can and will continue to attrit the Russian army for a long time.

    The reason they haven’t lowered the conscription age is they can’t field as many soldiers with their provided inventory of equipment and support.

    Even though Russia has 6-7 million military aged men to pull from doing so will
    – cause their economy and future demographics to sink further
    – a significant amount of these are Moscovites. They’ve been sending mercs, prisoners, ethnic minorities and now North Koreans to avoid this. You start sending Moscovites, you’ll lose power and the number one rule of a dictator, stay in power.
    – many have fled and will continue to flee to avoid this pointless fight.

  11. First line of article says this is soldier deaths. The number of civilian deaths (especially early in the war) could raise this number significantly.

  12. That’s confirmed dead. Not missing, wounded and confirmed captured which will add significantly.

  13. Why do you comment “fake” or whatever unless you want Russian rule?

    What do you think happens to your American life when russia rules?

    You fuckers are so dumb. Jesus

  14. >Ukrainian war dead reaches 43,000, Zelensky says

    lol Trump outing their casualty count as 400k forced him to increase his fake numbers a bit, although even Trump’s numbers are probably 20-30% too low on Ukraine and too high on Russia. I’m guessing Trump got it backward and it’s 400k casualties Russia, 600k Ukraine – that would be a reasonable fit for the situation we see on the ground and fits nicely with Ukraine’s wild casualty claims for Russia since Zelensky would never quote a lower public number for Russia than his own real private casualty count.

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