Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "CBS Evening News"
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@MoeDoe1 - he said "well over 200k casualties". 200k casualties would INCLUDE around 50k KIA. And, those are the conservative estimates.
Then, there's the possibility that when people say, "Russian casualties" they aren't including DNR and DPR fighters, which are technically Ukrainians or the massive casualties Wagner and smaller private military companies have sustained because, while predominantly Russian, they aren't "Russian military".
Russia doesn't count those categories as Russian casualties.
So, after a year of fighting, 200k isn't high, it's conservative when you consider all the various entities fighting under the Russian umbrella.
The fact is that Russia mobilized over 300k citizens and many were immediately deployed to the frontline in Ukraine to prevent Ukraine from being able to overwhelm Russian lines the way they did with Kharkiv.
The ones that did actually receive training, have been showing up in Ukraine in infantry units instead of whatever jobs, artillery, tank crew, etc that they were trained for.
That is evidence that the Russian mobiliki losses have been very high, if mobiliki trained for other jobs are having to fill gaps in infantry units that the mobiliki who went straight to Ukraine had filled.
Further backing that up is that Russia is doing stealth mobilization after the fallout of the previous mobilization. Russia is recruiting from prisons, extending contract soldier's terms indefinitely, and has implement nonstop conscription instead of the previous twice yearly conscription calls and raised the age of who qualifies for conscription and removed the exemption for university students and graduates.
Russia wouldn't be needing so many extra troops just to hold back Ukraine in the south and make nearly zero progress in the east if they weren't losing troops.
I'd guesstimate total casualties for all Russia affiliated combatants at over 400k with around 100k of that being KIA.
Those numbers may seem outrageously huge compared to what we, the US, experiencesd in 20 years of invasioneering in the Middle East.
However, unlike the massive air campaign followed by a rapid invasion and then counterinsurgency effort, Ukraine is a total conventional war between forces that have some level of parity in combat power (Russia having more troops and vehicles with less regard for casualties while Ukraine has better training and more flexible leadership along with some battlefield tech superiority).
Total casualties for both sides will probably be nearing 1 million after Ukraine's next offensive.
Lots of fighting, lots of dying. Think of it like this, Russian tank crew deaths have been over 6,000. Nobody is surviving as wounded when the tank is destroyed by missile or tank gun hit. To think that some sources are claiming 16k Russian casualties total means injuries and deaths from all other sources, including artillery and direct infantry combat only add up to 10k after over a year is ludicrous. Western estimates had Russia, including Wagner and DNR / DPR incurring nearly that many casualties PER MONTH through February and March.
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