Russia has already lost the war in Ukraine: 2.5 years later and losses are over 600,000

Another slap for Vladimir Putin is the estimates of foreign intelligence on how many casualties he counts in the 2.5 years of war on . According to British military espionage her assessment of Russian casualties on the battlefield since the start of the war in Ukraine is 610,000 dead and wounded. The Wall Street Journal earlier today, in an article (One Million Are Now Dead or Injured in the Russia-Ukraine War) reported citing “western secret services”: “the number of Ukrainians and Russians killed or injured in the 2.5-year war reached about one million”. It gives its own appreciation for Russian losses, which according to the paper amount to 200,000 dead and 400,000 injured. The American newspaper writes that Ukrainian military casualties reach 80,000. He even points out that losses are painful for the Russian army, but for the less densely populated Ukraine they could be even more painful. Losses in the battlefields as well as population withdrawals, the paper says, cause enormous damage to the future of the two countries. The population of Ukraine from the 48 million that were in accordance with the 2001 census could have been reduced to 25-27 million without taking into account residents in the territories occupied by Russia. According to the newspaper estimates, after the start of the war, some 600,000 people left Russia primarily young people with vocational training. British espionage writes, the widespread implementation of the tactics of mass infantry attacks makes the Russian army dependent on the continuous flow of recruits. Among other things, in 2024, recruit rates were likely reduced. Last year, as British espionage writes in its post, Russian officials publicly declared that 1,600 people are recruited daily, and this year 1,000. In fact these same numbers are likely to some extent exaggerated (the word ‘probably’ is defined as a possibility with a percentage of 55% to 75%). In August, the Russian defence ministry increased the one-off fees for those who signed a contract. According to estimates (the source of estimates is not reported), from January to June, the wages of the military made up 8% of the total expenditure of the Russian budget. The British intelligence agency estimates that the increase in remuneration (based on the aforementioned terminology concept) enables the recruitment of contractors to be maintained by the end of the year. Russia and Ukraine do not reveal casualties in the war. Nominal lists with the dead, create based on open sources some groups of investigative journalists in collaboration with volunteers. On one of these lists, compiled by the BBC’s Russian agency journalists, in collaboration with the independent Mediazona and volunteers website, in the Ukraine war, 69,000 Russian soldiers have been killed. Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war record the unidentified UAlosses website, which says 55,812 Ukrainian military officers have been killed.