British Intelligence: 500,000 Russians Killed In Ukraine War So Far

 

This is shocking and would go far in explaining why war criminal Putin is looking over his shoulder in the Kremlin:

Almost 500,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since it launched its fullscale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to the UK's largest spy agency.

The numbers were revealed by GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler in her inaugural public speech as she set out the threats facing the UK and the measures she believes need to be taken to confront them.

The spy chief warned the UK is at a "moment of consequence" with Russia "relentlessly targeting" critical infrastructure across the country.  [snip]

While both Kyiv and Moscow have regularly published estimates of the other side's losses, they have been reluctant to detail their own.

However, in February, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had lost 55,000 soldiers since 2022.

BBC News Russian has been counting Russian war losses together with independent outlet Mediazona and a group of volunteers since February 2022. A list is kept of named individuals whose deaths we were able to confirm using official reports, newspapers, social media, and new memorials and graves.

The BBC has so far been able to confirm the names of 223,539 soldiers and officers, killed fighting for the Russian side in Ukraine.

The real death toll is believed to be much higher, and military experts we have consulted believe our analysis of cemeteries, war memorials and obituaries might represent 45-65% of the total...

To put this in perspective, the United States lost 58,220 service members in the Vietnam War (1955-1975).  The Ukraine-Russia war has taken place over 4 years, with a Russian death toll nearly 10 times what America suffered in the 20-year Vietnam War.  Even if that number is off by half, it would still represent an enormous loss of life and military strength, enough in itself to explain why Russia's made no headway in Ukraine in years.  Regardless, Putin and his gang of war criminals have a lot of Russian blood on their hands (but not so many cards as our Malignant Fascist says they have), not to mention the blood of Ukrainian service members and innocent civilians.  They might want to stay away from windows, because that's usually the way disasters like this are rewarded.

 (Image:  via BBC)