909Ag2006 said:

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That article says Russia needs to recruit 30,000 new troops per month to replace casualties. I call BS.

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Do some research. Russia has been documented as losing ~1K casualties (i.e. killed and wounded) a day for most of this year.

With a reported 470,000 Russian troops fighting inside Ukraine in what has become a primarily infantry war, the number is not surprising.

More info on the crashing Russian ruble. Ordinary Russian citizens are feeling the impact of the Ukraine War with inflation at 8.5% and interest rates at an astonishing 21%. Of course, the Kremlin is downplaying this as much ado about nothing.

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Economists say there's no doubt that the war, and Western measures designed to punish Russia for its invasion, are starting to really hit home.

"One would think two years of sanctions is starting to wreak havoc on the Russian economy," Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US, commented Wednesday, as the ruble fell further.
Russia's economy appeared to be "an overheated economy that is struggling to support its war effort [and] exhausts its resources," he said in comments posted on X, noting that the central bank appeared to have run out of "unorthodox steps to avoid the obvious endgame in which it stops buying foreign currencies, which started today."

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/28/russia-tries-to-stem-panic-over-plummeting-ruble-central-bank-steps-in.html

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PJYoung said:

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909Ag2006 said:

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That article says Russia needs to recruit 30,000 new troops per month to replace casualties. I call BS.

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Casualty rate is thought to be above 1k a day so the math checks out.

But i understand finding those numbers hard to believe. Incredible meat grinder.

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This article says 2000 lost in a day with 300 pieces of equipment. Just insane.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/29/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-war-latest-news/

"909Ag2006 said:
That article says Russia needs to recruit 30,000 new troops per month to replace casualties. I call BS.
Do some research. Russia has been documented as losing ~1K casualties (i.e. killed and wounded) a day for most of this year.

With a reported 470,000 Russian troops fighting inside Ukraine in what has become a primarily infantry war, the number is not surprising."

That would put them at around 1,000,000 casualties so far. The articles I have read say their losses are half that.

mallen said:

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More info on the crashing Russian ruble. Ordinary Russian citizens are feeling the impact of the Ukraine War with inflation at 8.5% and interest rates at an astonishing 21%. Of course, the Kremlin is downplaying this as much ado about nothing.

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Economists say there's no doubt that the war, and Western measures designed to punish Russia for its invasion, are starting to really hit home.

"One would think two years of sanctions is starting to wreak havoc on the Russian economy," Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US, commented Wednesday, as the ruble fell further.
Russia's economy appeared to be "an overheated economy that is struggling to support its war effort [and] exhausts its resources," he said in comments posted on X, noting that the central bank appeared to have run out of "unorthodox steps to avoid the obvious endgame in which it stops buying foreign currencies, which started today."

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/28/russia-tries-to-stem-panic-over-plummeting-ruble-central-bank-steps-in.html

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Heard one commentator say mortgage rates are 28%. Beyond Jimmy Carter !

909Ag2006 said:

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"909Ag2006 said:
That article says Russia needs to recruit 30,000 new troops per month to replace casualties. I call BS.

"Do some research. Russia has been documented as losing ~1K casualties (i.e. killed and wounded) a day for most of this year.

With a reported 470,000 Russian troops fighting inside Ukraine in what has become a primarily infantry war, the number is not surprising."

That would put them at around 1,000,000 casualties so far. The articles I have read say their losses are half that.

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"For most of this year" not for the entire war.

Both 500,000 or 1,000,000 casualties are insane numbers in the current era for western cultures but then there is russia.