Interesting take on the Ukranian conflict

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[–]neolib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This is another pro-Russian anonymous blogger, so everything should be taken with an enormous grain of salt. Especially "Ukrainian casualties have been so astronomical" - there's no source for that, not even in reputable Russian media.

Last more or less credible numbers I saw were these (in the middle of counteroffensive, so could be closer now):

https://saidit.net/s/WarWatch/comments/bccl/russias_military_casualties_the_us_officials_said/

[–]MuskyIndependent[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

there's no source for that, not even in reputable Russian media.

The Discord leaks had the Pentagon estimating 176k casualties on the Ukranian side.

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

No, some screenshots were edited (and spread by pro-Russian bloggers), the initial one shared on 4chan showed 17k KIA for Ukraine (Mar 2023):

https://saidit.net/s/Geopolitics/comments/axqe/i_dont_think_russia_is_incompetent_but_the_guy/12hbk

[–]MuskyIndependent[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

(The second one is blurrier just because I did a crappy screenshot on my phone)

👀 How does that work?

So apparently there's no non-blurry copy of this supposedly fake misinformation edited by Russian hax0rs and the only thing the hackers did all war was to change unbelievable fatality numbers to believable ones when neither Ukraine or Russia seemed to care about the leak otherwise.

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

Do you want me to find an archive of the initial 4chan thread, when nothing about the leak was known at all? Just some random guy shared these pictures in the thread when arguing about the war, and that's when journalists/osinters start to dig and found the discord servers and everything.

I saved my copy (https://files.catbox.moe/7lk6a9.png, my upload) from that very thread when it was still live on 4chan (found it by googling Post ID from a twitter screenshot).

Background refresher: 2022–2023 Pentagon document leaks