Truth about the Ukrainian War
Ukraine claims over 700,000 Russians have been killed to only 43,000 Ukrainians. Russia claims 500,000 Ukrainians have been killed to 71,000 Russians. Western sources estimate 80,000 Ukrainians killed, possibly 500,000 to 750,000 Russians. These figures differ widely, mostly for propaganda reasons but also because soldiers killed may be reported as MIA if their bodies aren’t found and identified. Also deserters are ignored. They also ignore soldiers wounded and civilian casualties. In WW2 each side under-reported their casualties by half and exaggerated enemy casualties by two to three times1. If we adjust for that and then average the resulting (and still widely differing) Ukrainian and Russian claims, (and I did the math right), we come up with about 186,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed and about 296,000 Russians. Those are just rough estimates to try to remove the slants of propaganda, but are probably much closer than each side’s claims! About 3 Russian soldiers are killed f...
