More than a year after President Vladimir Putin summoned 300,000 draftees to fight in Russia’s war in Ukraine, some of their families are starting to demand that they come home.
    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      7 months ago

      Isn’t it like 350k deployed and 315k dead? Those are insane numbers.

      Edit: 315k killed and wounded… not sure of the ratio

      • Nythos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        The accuracy of these numbers is always going to be debatable and the true numbers likely never known but this is what Ukraine is saying what Russian losses are like

      • space@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        Afaik, it’s 315k casualties, not deaths, which basically means “unable to serve”. This includes dead, injured, captured, deserted etc. Also keep in mind that this is an Ukrainian estimate which might be inflated.

        • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          7 months ago

          Their stockpiles and equipment were neglected over years. They once held a significant strength in their military. But it was systemic corruption that eroded their status as a military superpower. That’s clearly a myth at this point, no doubt…

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            I mean, they both have/had rampant corruption and cronyism, so they aren’t actually that different. Russia just stopped pretending to be communist.

            • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              I think they are referring to the relative societal priority of maintaining a large modern fighting force. USSR was investing and developing bleeding edge weapons tech. Russia has just been sitting on that same stockpile.