Ukraine has advanced 5-17 km in the Zaporizhya region, breached Russia's first line of defenses and liberated over a dozen communities, according to the site Volya, citing Ukrainian and Russian contacts
@WarMonitors:⚡️Video showing Russian troops withdrawing from positions in the Zaporizhia frontline due to the concentration of the Ukrainian offensive in the area
Russia lost a staggering 15,000 troops killed or wounded (perhaps 12 brigades) in the first five days of Ukraine's small-scale counteroffensive probing assaults starting June 4, according to calculations based on Ukrainian reports of Russian losses and estimates of Russia's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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"Timed exactly to disrupt the Ukrainian counteroffensive, there is no doubt that the culprit is Russia": Dnipro River Foundation director
Despite "overwhelming" evidence Russia destroyed the Nova Kakhovka dam, unleashing a Chornobyl-scale ecological catastrophe, the Western… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"The dam was destroyed from the center, which some experts say rules out a dam failure as the damage would start from the edges of the dam in such a scenario. Destruction of the dam from explosives would require the use of hundreds of pounds of explosives and would best be done… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
That's 800,000 casualties out of about 900,000 Russian troops in the initial invasion and recruited since.
Keep in mind most wounded eventually return to combat. Based on data from this and past wars, about half of Russian wounded have likely returned to combat after med care /2
The data suggests over 53% of those 900,000 troops are out of action (killed, disabled, recovering, missing or captured)
A common rule of thumb is that a military force losing over 50% of its troops is considered combat ineffective and needs to be withrawn to be reconstituted /3
Of ∼800,000 initial Russian invasion force and troops added later, Ukraine estimated 166,570 were killed as of 3/21
Based on Western estimates of a 3-to-1 wounded-to-killed ratio for Russian losses in the war, that means ∼500,000 wounded, for a total of ∼666,000 casualties /2
Of the Russian wounded, based on calculations using data from previous wars and reports from the current war, I estimate 250,000 have returned to battle, 150,000 still getting medical care and 100,000 are permanently out of action 3/
Q: Does [Putin] really have cancer?
A: Yes, we fully confirm this information. He has several serious illnesses, one of which is cancer.
But it is not worth hoping that Putin will die tomorrow. He has at least a few more years. Like it or not, it's true.
Budanov: Look at the history of any dictator of the XX-XXI century. They ended the same, absolutely all. None of them ended differently. In most cases, they died against their will... Putin will end the same way.
"Also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia, with a bold letter Z crossing out all hopes and prospects for a prosperous free society in our country"
"Those who conceived this war want only one thing - to remain in power forever, live in pompous tasteless palaces, sail on yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the entire Russian Navy, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity"