• Sasuke [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    On May 10th of this year, with the war in a very different phase, Russia attacked again. The so-called “meat storm,” in which wave after wave of foot soldiers are sent into the line of fire—Western intelligence services estimate that the total number of Russian dead and wounded has surpassed half a million—remains a grim hallmark of Russian operations, but the military has adapted.

    the so-called "meat storm"

    But there is still no process for demobilizing troops, so those who are called up fear that they are being handed a one-way ticket—not an attractive prospect in a grinding war of attrition that, according to U.S. intelligence, has killed seventy thousand Ukrainian soldiers

    are these really the numbers western propaganda is operating with? lol. lmao, even.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      They crafted this whole narrative of incompetent Russian army that's on a verge of collapse over the past two years, and now they have to reconcile this with AFU visibly collapsing. I'm sure we'll be seeing olympic level mental gymnastics going forward.