The rates of these amputations quoted here do seem exceptionally high compared to figures from other recent conflicts.
I did a check and got during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US military reported amputation rates of around 1-8% of all wounded soldiers.
A UK study of wounded soldiers in Afghanistan found amputation rates of less than 1%
Israeli data from the Second Intifada gave an amputation rate of around 2-3% of wounded soldiers.
Ukraine’s figure is about 10%, which is also high but not where these Russian figures are.
My assessment is that either:
1) The Russian figures being reported are very wrong/inflated.
AND/OR
2) It suggests Russia’s treatment of its wounded troops is severely deficient if 54% require amputations.
Most just die on the battlefield. The few that get evacuated probably have all kinds of complications set in by the time they arrive at a real medical facility. Imagine a Russian applying a tourniquet and then having it on for days.
awesome news. more cripples they have after the war the better
They were never “whole people” to begin with or they wouldn’t have gone to Ukraine in the first place. They would’ve taken up arms (when they had arms) against the malignant government that has maimed them.
Now they have lifelong evidentiary proof.
There’ll be no top-notch services in Boston extending help to rehabilitate them and provide world leading prosthetics.
They’ll have to shuffle around on improvised skateboards begging in the impoverished backwaters of bankrupt Russkiy Mir.
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The rates of these amputations quoted here do seem exceptionally high compared to figures from other recent conflicts.
I did a check and got during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US military reported amputation rates of around 1-8% of all wounded soldiers.
A UK study of wounded soldiers in Afghanistan found amputation rates of less than 1%
Israeli data from the Second Intifada gave an amputation rate of around 2-3% of wounded soldiers.
Ukraine’s figure is about 10%, which is also high but not where these Russian figures are.
My assessment is that either:
1) The Russian figures being reported are very wrong/inflated.
AND/OR
2) It suggests Russia’s treatment of its wounded troops is severely deficient if 54% require amputations.
Most just die on the battlefield. The few that get evacuated probably have all kinds of complications set in by the time they arrive at a real medical facility. Imagine a Russian applying a tourniquet and then having it on for days.
awesome news. more cripples they have after the war the better
They were never “whole people” to begin with or they wouldn’t have gone to Ukraine in the first place. They would’ve taken up arms (when they had arms) against the malignant government that has maimed them.
Now they have lifelong evidentiary proof.
There’ll be no top-notch services in Boston extending help to rehabilitate them and provide world leading prosthetics.
They’ll have to shuffle around on improvised skateboards begging in the impoverished backwaters of bankrupt Russkiy Mir.