I've seen projects that count the confirmed KIA by name from social media commemorations,. and they arrive at like Russian 72k KIA, 68k Ukranian KIA. Russia does not have a 10:1 casualty rate.

Edit: I don't know why we shouldn't accept the named KIA projects as being an effective lower-bound estimate of those killed. if we accept around 70,000 Russians have died, and assume that there are significantly more russian non-KIA casualties than KIA, then not even the Russian MOD is claiming numbers that would be 10:1. Does the Slava Rossiya crew on Hexbear think there are over 2 million Ukranian casualties? in Febuary, Russia said 444,000 Ukranians killed and wounded.

[–] Voidance@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They have air superiority and are fighting an army that’s obsessed with launching hopeless offensives and been reduced to forcibly conscripting 50 years olds, I would totally believe a 10:1 ratio

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They do. They have air superiority and really much more of everything including morale

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

We also know:

Ukraine has been getting slowly pushed back
Ukraine's counteroffensive failed

Abandoning a position because you can't hold it usually involves lots of deaths. Similarly, moving on a position but getting pushed back seems like it would aldo be pretty costly.

I'm skeptical of 10:1, but I'm also skeptical of 1:1.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Russia absolutely has a 10:1 kill ratio and you’d be stupid to not believe it.