Ukrainian commander reveals true scale of losses – and pays the price

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[–]neolib 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

US officials have estimated that the Ukrainian army may have taken 120,000 casualties compared with 200,000 by the Russian army.

So if wounded-to-killed ratio is around 3 that means 30k killed Ukrainians / 50k killed Russians.

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I never knew that was the typical wounded-to-killed ratio. Interesting. The less optimistic estimates think there may be around 260k Ukranian casualties so far, 20k a month. Which would be 65k KIA.

[–]neolib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It depends on whether tactical medicine is good/modern enough - for US in Afghanistan it was like 10:

https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/511/90/media-assets/image/20220730_EUC283.png (source: https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/07/24/how-heavy-are-russian-casualties-in-ukraine)