The Daily Populous Tuesday August 20th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by kyivpost.com and submitted by Silly-avocatoe

Russia’s personnel losses during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian estimations, have broken the 600,000 mark.

According to an update on Monday by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Russia lost 600,470 military personnel between Feb. 24, 2022, and Aug. 19, 2024, and 1,120 alone over the past day.

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Ukraine also estimated that Russian forces lost 8,513 tanks and 16,495 armored personnel carriers (APCs) as of Monday.

On Saturday, Aug. 17, the AFU reported that Russia lost 1,170 troops in a single day.

Russian personnel losses exceeded 500,000 in May, and the month also witnessed the highest reported daily troop losses at 1,200 on average, according to an update by the British Ministry of Defence on May 31.

A NATO official previously said that Russia has been recruiting around 30,000 troops monthly to sustain the losses.

Initially, Moscow had amassed more than 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border weeks before the 2022 invasion.

On Aug. 6, Ukraine launched a new offensive into Russia’s less-fortified Kursk region, which took Moscow by surprise, with Russian conscripts being thrust into the fight in its attempt to contain the offensive.

On Aug. 14, Ukraine captured over 100 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) in its Kursk incursion, marking the largest single capture of Russian troops since Moscow’s invasion started in 2022.

Nocta_Novus on August 20th, 2024 at 04:41 UTC »

Oddly enough, NCD has also just broken 600,000 members!

hiimmatt314 on August 20th, 2024 at 04:12 UTC »

The crazy thing is looking at total daily losses for all equipment(APV, Artillery, AA, Tanks, etc.). Absolutely staggering numbers even if you were to be bias and put it at 20-30% lower than reported. Not saying I believe in the bias as most western reports confirm within 1-2 months generally, But just had to say it to appeal to the doubtful. The mass scale of everything is something that many people miss even today.

( Edit: Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1evtdjq/losses_of_the_russian_military_to_1982024/ for those unaware of the source of numbers. Hence why even if you were to take these numbers as not 100% accurate is still unbelievable.

got-trunks on August 20th, 2024 at 04:04 UTC »

It's weird how passively so many people can be sent to a meatgrinder while the rest of the entire world just looks at memes and bitches at eachother on a site like twitter. I wonder how little it mattered to people in past world wars like... well at least it's not MY kids dying.

Until they were. I'd fight for my kids. Thank god it's not where I am.