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Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

Appalling statistics. All those lives wasted for nothing.

November saw Russia suffer a record daily average for the number of soldiers injured or killed since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to UK intelligence.

The UK Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update on Thursday morning that "the average daily Russian casualties (killed and wounded) in the Russia-Ukraine conflict reached a new monthly war high during November 2024."

Citing the Ukrainian General Staff, it said that Russia suffered 45,680 casualties in November, up from 41,980 in October, with a daily average of 1,523.

It was the third month in a row that Russian forces suffered record-breaking daily average losses, it said, and the fifth straight month that it had seen its total losses rise.
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The MOD added that Russia's casualties "will likely continue to average above 1,000 a day in December 2024 despite the onset of winter," with continued attacks on multiple fronts.

Russia has been relentlessly trying to push forward on multiple fronts in Ukraine over the past few months, slowly gaining territory, but in a way that warfare experts say is not proportionate to its losses.

Washington DC-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War said in an update on Tuesday that Russia suffered significant losses of people and armored vehicles last month as it "attempted to maintain intensified offensive operations in eastern Ukraine."

It also pointed to Russia's losses in September and October and said the country "cannot sustain such significant loss rates indefinitely in return for gradual, creeping battlefield gains."
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in late October that over 600,000 Russian troops had been killed or wounded in the conflict.
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www.businessinsider.com

November was the most costly month of the war for Russia in terms of average daily dead and injured: UK intel

The UK defense ministry said the average number of Russian soldiers killed or injured daily fighting Ukraine reached a new in November.
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Key city enabling supply of Ukrainian troops and which has the only coke plant to make steel is under close pressure now.

Not wanting to go all armchair general but if this place falls it could spell the collapse at the front for the Ukrainians.

  • Russian troops destroyed or captured several Ukrainian positions near the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s military said on Wednesday. Moscow’s forces lay as close as 3km (1.9 miles) from the southern outskirts of the city, according to Ukraine’s DeepState, which maps the frontlines using open sources. Ukraine’s military spokesperson for the eastern front, Nazar Voloshyn, said in televised comments: “As a result of prolonged clashes, two of our positions were destroyed, one was lost. Currently, measures are being taken to restore positions.”
  • Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said he had visited a marine unit in the Pokrovsk sector and noted the conditions servicemen faced against “an enemy superior, primarily, in terms of manpower. Unconventional decisions must be made to enhance the resilience of our defence and ensure more effective destruction of the occupiers. The battles are exceptionally fierce. The Russian occupiers are throwing all available forces forward, attempting to break through our troops’ defences.”
 
TopCat said:
Key city enabling supply of Ukrainian troops and which has the only coke plant to make steel is under close pressure now.

Not wanting to go all armchair general but if this place falls it could spell the collapse at the front for the Ukrainians.

  • Russian troops destroyed or captured several Ukrainian positions near the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s military said on Wednesday. Moscow’s forces lay as close as 3km (1.9 miles) from the southern outskirts of the city, according to Ukraine’s DeepState, which maps the frontlines using open sources. Ukraine’s military spokesperson for the eastern front, Nazar Voloshyn, said in televised comments: “As a result of prolonged clashes, two of our positions were destroyed, one was lost. Currently, measures are being taken to restore positions.”
  • Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said he had visited a marine unit in the Pokrovsk sector and noted the conditions servicemen faced against “an enemy superior, primarily, in terms of manpower. Unconventional decisions must be made to enhance the resilience of our defence and ensure more effective destruction of the occupiers. The battles are exceptionally fierce. The Russian occupiers are throwing all available forces forward, attempting to break through our troops’ defences.”
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Breathless
 
Zelensky asserts a lot about NK troops. Surprised we don’t have a single pic of a dead one or a live POW. The NK troops who Zelensky said had deserted have vanished too.
  • Russia has begun using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults on Ukrainian forces battling to hold territory in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. “Today, we already have preliminary data that the Russians have begun to use North Korean soldiers in their assaults. A significant number of them,” Zelenskyy told Ukrainians in his daily wartime address. The North Koreans were being used in combined Russian units and only on the Kursk front for now, he said, adding: “We have information suggesting their use could extend to other parts of the frontline.” North Korean soldiers had so far not entered the fight on Ukrainian soil, but were already taking “noticeable” losses.
 
TopCat said:
Zelensky asserts a lot about NK troops. Surprised we don’t have a single pic of a dead one or a live POW. The NK troops who Zelensky said had deserted have vanished too.
  • Russia has begun using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults on Ukrainian forces battling to hold territory in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. “Today, we already have preliminary data that the Russians have begun to use North Korean soldiers in their assaults. A significant number of them,” Zelenskyy told Ukrainians in his daily wartime address. The North Koreans were being used in combined Russian units and only on the Kursk front for now, he said, adding: “We have information suggesting their use could extend to other parts of the frontline.” North Korean soldiers had so far not entered the fight on Ukrainian soil, but were already taking “noticeable” losses.
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Lots of news about them

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Two Russian oil tankers have broken up in bad weather off the coast of Crimea.
The Volgoneft-212 was carrying 4,000 tons of fuel oil.
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unn.ua

Waves smash two Russian tankers off the coast of Crimea: one of them was carrying more than 4 tons of fuel oil | УНН

УНН Crimes and emergencies ✎ In the Kerch Strait, two Volgoneft vessels were severely damaged by strong waves. There are crew members on board each ship waiting to be rescued.
unn.ua unn.ua

www.mirror.co.uk

Sinking oil tanker 'literally breaks in half' as choppers scrambled to save crew

At least 13 crewmen have been thrown overboard after a Russian oil tanker reportedly split in two as large waves battered the vessel off the coast of occupied Ukraine
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Russian general responsible for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare killed by an exploding scooter in Moscow. Foul play is suspected.

BBC News - Russian general killed in explosion in Moscow
www.bbc.com

Igor Kirillov: Russian general killed in Moscow explosion

Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was reportedly leaving a residential block when a nearby scooter exploded.
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The Ukrainian successor to the KGB seem much more competent at this kind of operation than the FSB.
 
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tim said:
Russian general responsible for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare killed by an exploding scooter in Moscow. Foul play is suspected.

BBC News - Russian general killed in explosion in Moscow
www.bbc.com

Igor Kirillov: Russian general killed in Moscow explosion

Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was reportedly leaving a residential block when a nearby scooter exploded.
www.bbc.com

The Ukrainian successor to the KGB seem much more competent at this kind of operation than the FSB.
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Russia have been using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
 
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So they're embarking on the wholesale slaughter of soldiers and villages, just like the Nazis did in WW2.
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Just like many other military forces since the Nazis, your post reads like it’s the first time it has happened since the Nazis which is simply not true
 
TopCat said:
Zelensky asserts a lot about NK troops. Surprised we don’t have a single pic of a dead one or a live POW. The NK troops who Zelensky said had deserted have vanished too.
  • Russia has begun using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults on Ukrainian forces battling to hold territory in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. “Today, we already have preliminary data that the Russians have begun to use North Korean soldiers in their assaults. A significant number of them,” Zelenskyy told Ukrainians in his daily wartime address. The North Koreans were being used in combined Russian units and only on the Kursk front for now, he said, adding: “We have information suggesting their use could extend to other parts of the frontline.” North Korean soldiers had so far not entered the fight on Ukrainian soil, but were already taking “noticeable” losses.
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Was this a suggestion that there are no NK troops in the region TopCat ?

If so, have you revised your opinion since Sunday?
 
Seems Ukraine has admitted to killing this wanker, the day after they charged him in absentia for the war crime of using chemical weapons against Ukraine.

Seems that actions have consequences, whether you are a health insurance CEO or scumbag war criminal.
 
editor said:
So they're embarking on the wholesale slaughter of soldiers and villages, just like the Nazis did in WW2.
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They seem to be embarking on anything that people believe on social media to be honest. Whilst not gorging on pornography. deserting, offering Russian soldiers tins of dog food, staring in astonishment at drones like people from Wigan pointing at aeroplanes, and later their bodies either lying in the snow stacked up or being burnt by Russian troops so that they are not recognised as being North Koreans.

To make matters worse Visegrad 24 announced that the Houthis are now fighting alongside the North Koreans , 'invading the West' as they say.
 
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