They're already over-extended in Ukraine, half that 400k is dead already.
Nope, they're half dead already, the 300k were gone months ago. Explain why Russian pulled troops from Armenia and Finnish border if it has 400k going spare? What forces do you think its conducting its present offensive with?
apnews.com
Pulled who back, WTF are you even talking about?
They pulled them back in the last 12 months.Has nothing to do with numbers sent to Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered the country’s military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine continues into its 22nd month.
Putin orders the Russian military to add 170,000 troops for a total of 1.32 million
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million.
It is the second such expansion of the army since 2018. The previous boost by 137,000 troops, ordered by Putin in August 2022, put the military’s numbers at about 2 million personnel and about 1.15 million troops.
They are already fighting or dead.Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on Friday that more than 452,000 people were recruited to the Russian military under contract from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1 2023.Russia increases maximum size of armed forces by 170,000 servicemen
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to increase the maximum number of servicemen in the Russian armed forces by 170,000 people, the Kremlin and the Defence Ministry said on Friday.www.reuters.com
Russia's armed forces have recruited 385,000 people so far this year,Russia says recruited 385,000 soldiers this year
Russia's armed forces have recruited 385,000 people so far this year, officials said Wednesday, as Moscow needs masses of soldiers for its Ukraine offensive. More than 1,600 people are signing a contract with the armed forces every day," Russia's former leader Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of...economictimes.indiatimes.com
These are extra troops.
www.politico.eu
Russia also needs a large army just to keep Russia under Putin's thumb. They're also economically limited as to how many troops they can deploy. If they could deploy more to Ukraine to win the war they would. There's also no way Russia could transport troops and equipment to Syria if the US decided to stop them.They pulled those back when the war began. These guys are new, still being recruited.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered the country’s military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine continues into its 22nd month.Putin orders the Russian military to add 170,000 troops for a total of 1.32 million
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million.
It is the second such expansion of the army since 2018. The previous boost by 137,000 troops, ordered by Putin in August 2022, put the military’s numbers at about 2 million personnel and about 1.15 million troops.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on Friday that more than 452,000 people were recruited to the Russian military under contract from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1 2023.Russia increases maximum size of armed forces by 170,000 servicemen
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to increase the maximum number of servicemen in the Russian armed forces by 170,000 people, the Kremlin and the Defence Ministry said on Friday.
Russia's armed forces have recruited 385,000 people so far this year,Russia says recruited 385,000 soldiers this year
Russia's armed forces have recruited 385,000 people so far this year, officials said Wednesday, as Moscow needs masses of soldiers for its Ukraine offensive. More than 1,600 people are signing a contract with the armed forces every day," Russia's former leader Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of...
These are extra troops.
Pulled who back, WTF are you even talking about?
Has nothing to do with numbers sent to Ukraine.
They are already fighting or dead.
Moscow to mobilize 500,000 new conscripts, Kyiv military intelligence says
Ukrainian officials predict the new Russian draft effort will begin after January 15.
Russian losses are at least twice as high as Ukrainian losses - bare minimum. They're up against better weapons and now more artillery too.
www.navalnews.com
How do you mean?
Russia mobilised 300k soldiers last September and another 400k since even officially, unofficially more. 150k dead maybe, and another 450k injured.
Not a hope in hell. The net change in territory this year is in Ukraine's favour.
They officially said they did, are they now denying it? Well we know what happened to them then.
Listen dude, stop getting your news from Russian sources, it's like getting your casualty figures from Hamas. Russia hasn't told the truth about a single thing relating to the Ukraine War since 2014. Even their own courts ended up admitting they had troops there despite official denials. They denied the sinking of the Moskva even long after it was obvious.
They officially said they did, are they now denying it? Well we know what happened to them then.
en.zona.media
It's already proven.
Your handling of even explicit figures is terrible:The Russians have retaken a lot of territories that the UAF had conquered. And the Russians prove that with videos and photographs of captured areas by posing in front of popular landmarks, like monuments and administrative buildings.
This is from British MoD.
The Russian army has made "creeping advances" through the ruins of Marinka in Donetsk Oblast and now "likely controls" most of the area, the U.K. Defense Ministry reported in an intelligence update on Dec. 5.UK Defense Ministry: Russian forces control most of destroyed Marinka
The Russian army has made "creeping advances" through the ruins of Marinka in Donetsk Oblast and now "likely controls" most of the area, the U.K. Defense Ministry reported in an intelligence update on Dec. 5.kyivindependent.com
It's because since anything the Russians say is called propaganda, they have to prove what they say in order to have credibility. And once they prove it, you get news reports from the western side like the above.
This is what BBC could find on Russian deaths since the war began.
38,261 confirmed dead as of Dec 1st, 2023.
Russian casualties in Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated
Over 54,000 deaths confirmed by May 24
So what you are actually consuming is fake news. Reality is far more darker for Ukraine than you think.
www.strategicfront.org
It's already proven.
Your handling of even explicit figures is terrible:
Ukraine - Russia Conflict
So stop trying to comprehend deliberately obscure ones. Russian excess deaths were 50k by May, and that's just the ones where the bodies have been returned home and buried.
Look at the stats, Russia was several tenths above 18% when Ukraine began its last offensive, which was mocked by yourself for taking so little. Russia is yet to get back to 18%. It was at 17.96% at the start of the offensive, it is now at 17.967%. It has ~5x as much territory as it's currently retaken just to get back to 18%, which would still be only 9% of what they need to retake to pull back to where they were in June/July. I've posted this graph several times at various stages during the Ukrainian offensive in the other thread, go check search for them.
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Look at the stats, Russia was several tenths above 18% when Ukraine began its last offensive, which was mocked by yourself for taking so little. Russia is yet to get back to 18%. It was at 17.96% at the start of the offensive, it is now at 17.967%. It has ~5x as much territory as it's currently retaken just to get back to 18%, which would still be only 9% of what they need to retake to pull back to where they were in June/July. I've posted this graph several times at various stages during the Ukrainian offensive in the other thread, go check search for them.
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Marinka they already 90+% had on Oct 1st. They're just 2km from where they were on Feb 24th 2022 (red line). And that is your 'progress', 2km in 2 years.
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