The Ukraine War

The 315,000 is likely dead and wounded. Some of the wounded will return to battle. The KIA to WIA ratio for the US military was roughly 1 to 3 in WW2 & Vietnam.

Soviet ratio KIA to WIA ratio in WW2 was 1 to 2.6.

No mention of Ukrainian casualties from the report.

But last August there was a news article that report casualties suffer by both side.

Ukraine was said to have close to 70,000 killed and 100,000-120,000 wounded. Russia’s standing army is between two to three times larger than Ukraine’s, and the country has a larger population from which to replenish its frontline soldiers.

Ukraine has about 500,000 troops, while Russia has more than 1.3 million, the newspaper estimated, including reserves and Wagner paramilitaries.

Both estimates, which the officials admitted were speculative and varied widely within the government, would mark high killed-to-wounded ratios, with one Ukrainian killed for every two other soldiers wounded on the battlefield.

The reports of 120,000 Russian soldiers killed is considerably higher than the numbers confirmed by Russian journalists monitoring the conflict.

So yes many more Russians than Ukrainian soldiers have been killed. But Russia has a larger population to draw recruits.
The Stalingrad victory cost the then Soviet Union 3 times the losses in manpower & equipment than the Germans.
The Kursk victory cost the Soviets 2 times the manpower casualties & 4 times the loss of tanks than the Germans.

Russia has unleashed new offensive.

And the mood in Ukraine is much different than in 2022.

“Last year, people were more or less optimistic,” says Solomiia Bobrovska, a member of Ukraine’s parliament who serves on the national security, defense and intelligence committee. "But these days, they are exhausted. They are asking, ‘When will the war end?’ "

Can the Ukrainian prevail. Only if the West steps up with much more potent weapons and massive amounts of munitions. So far the West’s efforts have been inadequate.

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