58,290- 58,305 WIA on all fronts (including sick leave).
~1,380 casualties/day.
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๐ท๐บ RU overall losses until 1/31/23:
133,100- 137,731 losses (~394/day).
~30% are MIA.
291,295- 304,964 WIA (~869/day)
~40% are lightly wounded, most return to duty.
Not all are wounded at same time.
Total casualties: 424.4k- 442.7k in 343 days
(~1264 a day)
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๐บ๐ฆUA overall losses until 1/31/23:
62,233- 65,823 losses (~143/day)
~20% are MIA
148,782- 154,643 WIA ( ~442/day)
~50% are lightly wounded, most return to duty.
Total casualties: 211k- 220.5k (~628/day)
UA counts UAF, NGU, TDF, Police, Intl Legion in these figures.
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Regarding the casualty counts, which fluctuate, and do not follow the traditionally quoted standards of (1:3 or 1:5):
RU Battlefield medicine is extraordinarily poor. Lots of survivable wounds become deadly.
Lightly wounded UA soldiers often refuse to leave the front.
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Regarding Missing In Action:
~20% of UA Losses are MIA, and ~30% of RU losses.
Generally MIA means they are dead. Sometimes they are captured, or deserters.
There are more UA POW's then RU POW's, and vastly more RU deserters then UA.
Wagner has poor KIA accounting.
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Regarding sources and methods:
@Volya_media
Has been tracking RU/UA casualties via numerous sources since the early days of the war, and have had their data echoed by other estimates.
They are RU-language media, but very much anti-Putin.
Around 1415 today, a woman approached a group of soldiers in uniform in the city center, where her bag detonated. She was killed immediately, and there are further casualties.
Speculation is that the woman didn't know she was carrying a bomb.
Source: local Kherson channel "Kherson Non-Fake", which is a very reliable source.
A woman approached soldiers (not TCC military recruiting staff) in the city center carrying a bag. Before that, she had been inside a shopping mall. She likely didn't know what was inside, but it was an explosive device. She will have to be identified by DNA.
Everyone's talking about Gaza. Lets talk about it too, but from a medical perspective.
This is for civilians stuck in the middle of what is to be a very violent time and place. Don't lump me in with Hamas.
Tldr: Improvised tourniquets, chest seals, and gauze.
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The IDF will conduct an invasion of Gaza, where ~2.4 million people live at high density (6,500/km2, 16,800/mi2).
Israel and Egypt currently have the borders closed for security concerns.
Hamas certainly isn't interested in helping.
The civilians are stuck. (2/23)
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Urban warfare is brutal (@SpencerGuard ). During the battle of Shujaiyya (pic) in 2014, the IDF utilized heavy volumes of artillery to end heavy Hamas resistance in Gaza city after IDF losses.
They will likely do so again- the alternative is heavy IDF causalities. (4/13)
Hello, we here at Global Augmentation (a registered 501c3) are launching a fundraiser for $15,000 USD, for the purchase + delivery via Nova Posta of 1000+ certified Ukrainian tourniquets to frontline troops we've trained. More info below (1/7)
A TQ is an emergency medical device that works to stop massive bleeding from the arms or legs, by squeezing the artery (the major blood vessel) to the bone. Effective and rapid TQ use saves lives every single day here, as the most common intervention.
Why is it important?
Arm/Leg bleeding is the most common cause of preventable death in warzones with shrapnel cutting arteries, explosions taking off limbs, and more. Effective and rapid tourniquet use saves lives every single day here, more then any other intervention.
"Our infantry is fighting flawlessly - otherwise Bakhmut would have fallen long ago"
The NGU soldier with the call sign "Krafter" is performing tasks as part of the 3rd Battalion of the Rapid Reaction Brigade "Svoboda".
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Like many of his colleagues, Krafter is a volunteer who joined the ranks of the National Guard, and later the 4th RRB after February 24, when he found the full-scale Russian invasion in his hometown as he woke up to rocket attacks early in the morning down the road.
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" It was no longer possible to wait, to sit. I went from my hometown to Kyiv - I just got into the car with volunteers, not knowing where exactly fate would throw me. Later I got to the "Svoboda" battalion, where I am currently serving."
To the NW of Kherson city, the 1st ๐ท๐บline of defense, from Pravdyne-Snihurivka, is completely abandoned to the W of the Inhulets river.
The 2nd ๐ท๐บ line (Tomyna Balka- Chornobaika area) is reportedly in process of withdrawal.
๐บ๐ฆis advancing here, slowly and methodically. 2/9
๐ท๐บ Soldiers in and around Kherson city proper are preparing for an urban defense, with heavy mining of the city, suburbs, and civilian infrastructure such as homes and fields.
A regiment of ๐ท๐บ combat engineers are being deployed to aid in this effect. They came from Donetsk.
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