Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Russia is running out of soldiers" video.

  1. That's partially how Ukraine counts russian personnel losses, we approximate average crew size. Of course Oryx count is BARE MINIMUM, and real losses are much higher, unfortunately for both. Plus there are pure non-mechanized infantry losses, we all seen fields in Bakhmut with piles and piles of russians with no armor and cover.
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  2. About Ukraine-reported russian casualties: personnel losses are approximate, they literally had an asterisk saying that in reports. For same reason you said, methodology counting individual soldiers is imprecise. Generally, they count average crew size for each vehicle but you can't always be sure if it had higher or lower crew and it's hard to know for sure which are KIA and which are simply wounded or even retreated from a burning tank. Just clarifying that Ukrainian general staff itself openly admits that the count isn't, and cannot be, precise. It's all approximations. Speaking of personnel only here, the tech counts ARE assumed to be precise, Ukraine uses soldier reports, Oryx uses open source pictures, videos, and crew obituaries, which establish the bare floor of minimum losses for either side. Real loss count is 100% higher, only question is to what extent. Another thing that I want to add is that American counts are also flawed, there's another problem, they ASSUME 1 to 3 ratio of dead to wounded. Despite russian medevac being infamously bad, and prisoners not even getting one at all, what little we know it wad more 1.1-1.5 to 1 ratio, so 80k dead to 100k wounded would be closer to reality than ~40k dead and 120k+ wounded invaders, which Americans presume. They're projecting Western care for common soldier's life onto post-Soviet values where people are considered expendable.
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