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Russia has lost approximately twice more men to death and serious injuries than Ukraine. But trends announce the Kremlin.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Constant Méheut
Reporting from Berlin and Kyiv, Ukraine
The war of attrition between Russia and Ukraine is killing soldiers at a pace unseen in Europe since World War II.
Ukrainian artillery fire, explosive drones and mines are killing Russian troops, as they repeatedly charge across the no-man’s land. As Ukrainian positions are exposed, they are suffering heavy casualties inflicted from afar by Russian drones, shells and glide bombs.
Calculating the magnitude of the casualties and the trajectory of the war is difficult: the data is a state secret in both countries. The Ukrainian government has been secretive, restricting access to demographic knowledge that can be used to estimate its losses.
The maximum integral rates of Ukraine infantry soldiers that occur through biased or opaque motivations.
Running with incomplete information, experts say that Ukraine has undergone roughly part of Russia’s irreplaceable losses, deaths and injuries that bring infantrymen from war indefinitely, in the nearly 3-year war.
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