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The commander of the British army announced that Russian forces suffered their largest monthly losses in October 2024, with an average of 1,500 dead and wounded daily.

"Russia is about to lose 700,000 people killed and wounded - this is a huge pain and suffering that the Russian people are forced to endure because of Putin's ambitions," Admiral Sir Tony Radakin noted.

bbc.com/news/articles/cp3nv7j1

www.bbc.comUK chief of defence staff calls on government to spend more on militaryTreasury minister Darren Jones says defence spending should rise to 2.5% of GDP, but avoids saying by when.

@noelreports 700 thousand people is nothing for them. It only matters for countries where human life is important. Russia is not such a country.

During WW2 and every other war before the tactics remain the same — drown the other side in the blood of their soldiers.

Nazi Germany, fighting against everybody else in WW2 lost 6 mln people. Russia lost 40 MILLIONS.

Do you think they’re going to care about 700k or 2 mln in a war to conquer Ukraine?

@mykhaylo @noelreports a of of oversimplification

russia is not the soviet union, they had lost 27 million, and one of the countries that suffered the worst during that era was ukraine

ukraine has statues to commemorate holodomor, they know what awaits them if they give up

@NeonPurpleStar @noelreports tell me about the war both my grandfathers fought in :) it’s not
oversimplification, it’s a fact that human life costs nothing for Russia. 27 million or 40 it’s still much more than any other country. Because they don’t value their soldiers.

Majority was Ukrainian, and they will try it again — forcing people of Donbas and other conquered regions to fight against us.

They can do anything and we can’t shoot back.

@NeonPurpleStar @noelreports and you need to understand something very simple. In a the country that can sacrifice more people has an advantage.

So in a direct war between the West, where human life is valued highly and , where they can throw millions into the trenches and not care, Russia will have a huge advantage.

Who’s going to fight for Europe? Do u foresee a WW2 level of volunteers? I don’t.

@mykhaylo @noelreports

i mean, i am greek, my grandfathers also fought in ww2, why are you using this as something condescending against me?

also, for someone "supporting" ukraine, you are really trying to promote the picture that russia is unstoppable
🇺🇦 Myke :emacs: :clojure:

@NeonPurpleStar @noelreports russia is stoppable for a little time more. If nothing changes — the weapon usage limitations aren’t getting lifted, weapons supplies don’t become sufficient — we will fall. And if that happens all that will remain is to say “we told u so”. But frankly that’s the kind of satisfaction I can live without.

My grandfathers fought in the Soviet army and were from Ukraine, so I know the numbers and history, nothing condescending there.

@mykhaylo @noelreports i agree on this 100% and i try to do whatever i can in my irl social circles over here
@mykhaylo @noelreports

please don't, i have suffered a bit mentally by having to argue with irl people, and online, that ukraine should continue getting help

but i have not suffered nearly enough as ukrainians