Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]

[DaRude]

I would not agree (nor would anyone in the West) that the losses of military personnel (if that's what you mean) are equal on both sides - because the attacking side, as a rule, loses far more people than the defending one. Only Ukraine and Russia know the exact figures, but some international studies say that Ukraine lost around 140 000, while Russia lost over 300 000 soldiers.

Really? So how much Americans died in Iraq and Vietnam, compared to local defenders?

We can't only count local defenders in both examples Vietnam and Iraq. The american part is an organized army armed with weapons and reserves and strategies. While the other part is in small scale few armed peopled gathered in small groups (nothing to compare with an organized army), while the total rest is civilians without arms. More than 1 million person killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2009, do you think all of them are defenders? While the number of killed american soldiers in Iraq in the same period is less than 4500 soldiers. Similar rates in Vietnam and in Afghanistan as well.

With Russia and Ukraine, more than 99% of russian victims are soldiers. While a great percentage in the Ukrainian side are civilians. The comparison can't be accurate if one side is always the attacker and the other is always the defender.

Why are you spreading lies and fakes? What "great percentage [victims] in the Ukrainian side are civilians" give us numbers and cite them or delete this propaganda BS!

[hostm]

great percentage [victims] in the Ukrainian side are civilians

The entire country has fallen victim to Zelenskyy's regime. Orthodox Christians are suffering first and foremost. They have suffered throughout history and in every country.

The mother asked for a funeral service for a Ukrainian soldier who died in the war, but the Right Sector forbade the church from opening. It was like, "Die and go to hell."

And then there's the forced mobilization. A minibus arrives in a certain area and they force all the men who haven't managed to hide into it.

But the worst thing is that people are trying to escape the country, but very few succeed. There are several YouTube channels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCZHAlwVkKk) where Ukrainians share stories of how they managed to escape the country and go abroad. On the Ukrainian border, people are simply being shot by border guards.

[Kavelj22]

I would not agree (nor would anyone in the West) that the losses of military personnel (if that's what you mean) are equal on both sides - because the attacking side, as a rule, loses far more people than the defending one. Only Ukraine and Russia know the exact figures, but some international studies say that Ukraine lost around 140 000, while Russia lost over 300 000 soldiers.

Really? So how much Americans died in Iraq and Vietnam, compared to local defenders?

We can't only count local defenders in both examples Vietnam and Iraq. The american part is an organized army armed with weapons and reserves and strategies. While the other part is in small scale few armed peopled gathered in small groups (nothing to compare with an organized army), while the total rest is civilians without arms. More than 1 million person killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2009, do you think all of them are defenders? While the number of killed american soldiers in Iraq in the same period is less than 4500 soldiers. Similar rates in Vietnam and in Afghanistan as well.

With Russia and Ukraine, more than 99% of russian victims are soldiers. While a great percentage in the Ukrainian side are civilians. The comparison can't be accurate if one side is always the attacker and the other is always the defender.

Why are you spreading lies and fakes? What "great percentage [victims] in the Ukrainian side are civilians" give us numbers and cite them or delete this propaganda BS!

According to this statistic, The OHCHR verified a total of 57,508 civilian casualties during Russia's invasion of Ukraine as of February 28, 2026. 42,144 of them are people that were reported to have been injured. However, OHCHR specified that the real numbers could be higher. It means more than 15,000 killed which more than 97% of them are civilians. It's easy to check by yourself the comparison with total number of Russians killed in this war. The great majority are soldiers. This is normal because Russia in the attacker part. Check this wiki fyi:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war

[BADecker]

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Why are you spreading lies and fakes? What "great percentage [victims] in the Ukrainian side are civilians" give us numbers and cite them or delete this propaganda BS!

According to this statistic, The OHCHR verified a total of 57,508 civilian casualties during Russia's invasion of Ukraine as of February 28, 2026. 42,144 of them are people that were reported to have been injured. However, OHCHR specified that the real numbers could be higher. It means more than 15,000 killed which more than 97% of them are civilians. It's easy to check by yourself the comparison with total number of Russians killed in this war. The great majority are soldiers. This is normal because Russia in the attacker part. Check this wiki fyi:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war

There is a piece of somewhat faulty thinking in what you say.

Russia started this whole thing out as a 'Special Military Operation', not a war, to put down a military-like, terrorist act that the Ukraine government was doing. The US has done this kind of thing around the world... in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, South and Central America, and maybe more. It was formerly called a police action.

Ukraine turned it into a war by not allowing themselves to be policed.

When a nation goes to war, there aren't any civilians. Why not? Because one way or another, all the citizens are supporting the war activity. The whole nation, be it either Russia or Ukraine, is a military war machine. There are no civilians. There are only military personnel in various positions, some of them barely active in the formal war at all.

Since it was Ukraine that started attacking the civilians before there even was a war, members of the Ukraine government turned themselves into terrorists. Then they went big, and turned it into a war. So, it is a Ukraine terrorist-war. The whole nation has volunteered to be terrorists, even if they are not militarily active other than support of Ukraine in various incidental ways. Similar with Russia now that it has become a war.

Big media people who are acting on behalf of the warmongers are the ones who started calling it a war. This is part of what prompted Ukraine to actually turn it into a way. This and the money laundering Ukraine has been doing by using funds that they received for the war to enrich all kinds of people individually, rather than for using it in the war.

[DaRude]

I would not agree (nor would anyone in the West) that the losses of military personnel (if that's what you mean) are equal on both sides - because the attacking side, as a rule, loses far more people than the defending one. Only Ukraine and Russia know the exact figures, but some international studies say that Ukraine lost around 140 000, while Russia lost over 300 000 soldiers.

Really? So how much Americans died in Iraq and Vietnam, compared to local defenders?

We can't only count local defenders in both examples Vietnam and Iraq. The american part is an organized army armed with weapons and reserves and strategies. While the other part is in small scale few armed peopled gathered in small groups (nothing to compare with an organized army), while the total rest is civilians without arms. More than 1 million person killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2009, do you think all of them are defenders? While the number of killed american soldiers in Iraq in the same period is less than 4500 soldiers. Similar rates in Vietnam and in Afghanistan as well.

With Russia and Ukraine, more than 99% of russian victims are soldiers. While a great percentage in the Ukrainian side are civilians. The comparison can't be accurate if one side is always the attacker and the other is always the defender.

Why are you spreading lies and fakes? What "great percentage [victims] in the Ukrainian side are civilians" give us numbers and cite them or delete this propaganda BS!

According to this statistic, The OHCHR verified a total of 57,508 civilian casualties during Russia's invasion of Ukraine as of February 28, 2026. 42,144 of them are people that were reported to have been injured. However, OHCHR specified that the real numbers could be higher. It means more than 15,000 killed which more than 97% of them are civilians. It's easy to check by yourself the comparison with total number of Russians killed in this war. The great majority are soldiers. This is normal because Russia in the attacker part. Check this wiki fyi:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war

How many of those civilian casualties were cause by Ukraine on Russia's controlled territories?


"Number of civilian casualties in Ukraine" all fighting, outside of Kursk fiasco, is happening "in Ukraine". Tricky wording to make it sound like all of it was caused by Russia

[montaga]

Insanity at it's peak, cemetery of a town with 400 000 Inhabitants (Muscovite's could not care less).
https://x.com/i/status/2039352976427434464

Russian soldier (sold soul) https://x.com/i/status/2034191845698236695 and https://x.com/i/status/2039346273455632689
The "kill zone" (gray area) is now 20km and expanding. NATO is dead, the old tactics don’t survive five minutes under FPV reality. Maybe NATO joins Ukraine.

One Russian air defense missile was late to the party, instead of hitting the drone it hit the petrochemical facility in Nizhnekamskneftekhim
Iranian Islamic regime drone hit Catholic Church, nothing is sacred.
Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan openly trolls Putin in the Kremlin. "We have free social media, there are absolutely no restrictions,"

[BADecker]

It has been stated that Russian troops are turning against Russia because of poor treatment both during and following their enlistment. But Putin has found a way around it, and is planning to add 400,000 willing troops to the war.

The part of the article presented below shows the problem. Go to the website to see what Putin's answer to it is.


Why Russia won't run out of soldiers anytime soon


https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/why-russia-wont-run-out-of-soldiers-anytime-soon/
Russia has begun a spring offensive in Ukraine, launching a major assault on the "fortress belt" of heavily defended cities in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. At the same time, a wave of nearly 1,000 drones and missiles targeted civilian, energy, and transport infrastructure across a wide swath of territory in a bid to overwhelm Ukraine's air defences.

Ukraine's technology-driven tactical nous has enabled it to kill or wound more Russian troops than are being recruited, month on month.

But reports from Ukraine's military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi that the Kremlin plans to add more than 400,000 new recruits in 2026, suggest that Russia intends to continue with its "meat grinder" strategy of attempting to overwhelm Ukraine along the front lines with sheer weight of numbers while undermining national morale by destroying its energy infrastructure.

Of course, the meat grinder involves a high level of casualties on the Russian side. This has led some western observers to suggest that Vladimir Putin might be forced to the negotiating table simply because his military can't get enough troops to continue in this way.

The idea that Russia will have trouble recruiting enough soldiers is a hangover from some of its past wars, where the dire treatment of its soldiers and veterans led at times to considerable disillusionment. This idea has been raised in the current war against Ukraine.

During the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s and the first Russian-Chechen War in the 1990s, soldiers' mothers organizations across Russia placed the conditions under which their sons served their country under the spotlight.

Poor service conditions, hazing and corruption – and the state's failure to provide adequate support and recognition to veterans and the families of fallen soldiers – eroded the image of the Russian military. This led to a breakdown in society-military relations and serious problems in the recruitment and retention of soldiers.
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[DaRude]

Insanity at it's peak, cemetery of a town with 400 000 Inhabitants (Muscovite's could not care less).
https://x.com/i/status/2039352976427434464

Russian soldier (sold soul) https://x.com/i/status/2034191845698236695 and https://x.com/i/status/2039346273455632689
The "kill zone" (gray area) is now 20km and expanding. NATO is dead, the old tactics don’t survive five minutes under FPV reality. Maybe NATO joins Ukraine.

One Russian air defense missile was late to the party, instead of hitting the drone it hit the petrochemical facility in Nizhnekamskneftekhim
Iranian Islamic regime drone hit Catholic Church, nothing is sacred.
Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan openly trolls Putin in the Kremlin. "We have free social media, there are absolutely no restrictions,"

How it started:

On 15 December 2021, Russia submitted a list of demands in the form of two draft treaties, one with NATO and another with the United States. The proposed treaties included a ban on Ukraine and other ex-Soviet countries joining NATO, and the removal of NATO troops and weapons from Central and Eastern Europe. The demands, issued during a period of high tension, during which about 100,000 Russian troops were massed on Ukraine's borders, were widely seen as an ultimatum and an attempt by Russia to exert pressure on Western countries.

The main demands were rejected by NATO and the United States on 26 January 2022, although counterproposals were made and the USA indicated a willingness to negotiate if Russia ceased threatening Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine followed less than a month later on 24 February.

How it's going: Trump suggests in new interviews he is ‘absolutely’ considering withdrawing US from ‘paper tiger’ NATO

As usual EU gets fucked, what a fucking circus. Try to push NATO into Ukraine and now talk about how NATO is dead, fucking clowns, all they managed to do is get a bunch of Ukrainians and Russians killed.

[hostm]

Defending Ukraine is a woman's business

[BADecker]

Defending Ukraine is a woman's business

https://i.ibb.co/nNXPyCb0/ukraine-1.jpg

How long is it going to take the women to get rid of Zelensky so there can be peace?

[montaga]

Defending Ukraine is a woman's business

Russian prisons not only cleared of males https://x.com/i/status/2039217529676288347 but yes girls can fly reconnaissance drone just as well

Second strongest army getting ready for the next assault https://x.com/i/status/2039378529922822302
Damn so lucky now proper treatment https://x.com/i/status/2038717803402867069
Slava Russia https://x.com/i/status/2038714658199159234

Russian air defense shot down its own An-26 transport aircraft over Crimea, thinking it was a Ukrainian drone. There were 30 officers on board, dead.
"Shadow fleet" tanker sank near Senegal
Meantime Ukraine developing the new ballistic missile (FP-9) to greet Muscovy mid year

Side note, huge flood in Stalingrad (Volgograd).

[Branko]

FPV drones destroyed an Abrams tank and a Ukrainian convoy in Grishino. Footage has emerged of an attempted counteroffensive by the Ukrainian 425th Separate Assault Regiment "Skala" in the Pokrovsk sector. An armored group consisting of a BMP-2, an M1A1 Abrams tank, an M113 armored personnel carrier, an M1117 armored personnel carrier, several armored vehicles, and an infantry group attempted to break through near Grishino. According to the video, all the armored vehicles were destroyed by FPV drones. The video has been shortened. Fifty-three Ukrainian soldiers were killed; the footage has been removed from the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7nzibo9mCc

[montaga]

FPV drones destroyed an Abrams tank ..........

FPV drones will and do destroy any tank in the world.
Defense industry the world over already up in arms, they see there industry disappear in front of them. Thanks for the girls cooking up the "kitchen drones".
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-hits-back-against-rheinmetall-ceos-housewives-drones-comments/ar-AA1ZJL2G
BTW Rheinmetall also build the Russian 333rd training center near the town of Mulino in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which was attacked by Ukrainian Lyuty drones on March 14

The only good for a tank in the modern world is to intimidate the own people.

Russia now went into counterfeit banknotes production.

[Branko]

Russia started producing anti-radar drones:


https://x.com/distant_earth83/status/2039403866500788637