Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Pro-Kremlin newspaper leaks shocking Russian death toll in Ukraine" video.

  1. The wounded stat is way low -- unless Russian medics shoot the wounded. 1% per day is the historical norm for any attacker/ invader versus a moderate defense. (Ukraine is using a fluid defense, until a city is at issue. This accounts for the total lack of Big Battles, encirclements.) You just know that every official account has to be a guestimate. No party has access to the both sides and the medical records. Assuming history is repeating: ~ 7,500 KIA ~ 7,500 Deserted, wounded and captured, captured at arms, lost in the woods. ~ 25,000 Wounded (the severity is all over the lot; some are cripples many are just bandage cases, most can be re-habbed.) ~ 40,000 Total troop losses from where Putin sits. No wonder he's compelled to bring in his strategic reserves... even from the Far East. He's brought in Syrians and Chechens, too. Historical loss trends exist because troops are only willing to press so far, take so many casualties, before they back off to regroup. If a particular unit is down 15% in combat manpower, it's should be out of action. In that 15% were the most aggressive troops. Only in dire situations will a unit be pressed on and on -- taking brutal losses. Such losses defined Iwo Jima, Saipan, Okinawa,... and Stalingrad. You will read of Soviet infantry divisions that took far more than 15% losses during WWII / the Great Patriotic War. But that process normally took months of fighting at the front. (Exceptions: Stalingrad, Yelnya Woods, the Great Kiev pocket...) You can see why the Ukrainian Army is so up-beat. Its morale is sky-high due to smart ATGMs -- and tank-sniping tactics. What this means: the Ukrainians are fighting squad by squad. They are not (usually) ever concentrated enough for the Russians to employ their vast superiority in artillery. Like Mel Gibson in 'Patriot' they pop-up as ghosts and then fade away. NLAWs and Javelins are (justifiably) terrifying. The Ukrainians just can't BELIEVE how effective they are. Those boys are over the Moon. They make the most advanced Russian tanks mere coffins. Their tanker morale is rock-bottom. They're the shootee, not shooter.
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  2.  @lamdao1242  Though here and there, the Russians might an acorn. Heh.
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