Thread by @TrentTelenko

This Ukrainian article titled "Russians in Ukraine's south cannot cope with huge number of wounded" is useful in showing how Russia is using occupied hospital facilities to the exclusion of medical treatment of Ukrainian civilians.

RuAF CasEvac🧵

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pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/…

This Reddit post has a captured Rostov-on-the-Don aerial evac-point video that is notable for the lack of medical support.

1. No intravenous fluids
2. No obvious medical people working
3. No food, just water
4. Thin/Malnourished RuAF wounded

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reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVi…

5. No shelter whatsoever from the sun, wind, jet blast, or rain.
6. The stated cause for the hours long delay was a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow.

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What isn't visible at that Rostov-on-the-Don airport casevac point is the "seriously wounded" that make up 15% of every set of battlefield casualties.

See definition & figure below.⬇️

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https://t.co/MUUlqX30Jf

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1656342251876876288

While the definition of "seriously injured" has changed over time as the medical state of the art has improved.

Any Western military trained doctors, nurses or medics will tell you there aren't any "seriously wounded" in those photo clips.

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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1656342258063376401

Rostov-on-the-Don is inside Russia.

It is the key logistical position supporting the RuAF in Donbas and by coastal barge traffic into Southern Ukraine, (150 km truck radius).⬇️

We should be seeing all sorts of medical kit here for the seriously injured, yet...nothing?!?

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The screen captures from the article "Review of Military Casualties in Modern Conflicts -- The Re-emergence of Casualties from Armored Warfare" and the post on RuAF "leading edge conveyors" makes clear we are looking at about a 40 hour delay for...

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https://t.co/d9GeAt1tc6

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1656342289118003207

...battlefield casualty evacuation to occupied Ukrainian hospitals.

Only the long term convalescents crowding those occupied Ukrainian medical facilities are showing up for CasEvac to Moscow area hospitals at Rostov-on-the-Don.

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The statistical implications of all of this means that at a minimum, 32% of Russian battle casualties inside Ukraine lead to battle deaths.

It may be up to 5% higher from a lack of whole blood and antibiotics in the RuAF medical supply chain.

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And please note, these are 'battle casualties'.

Those who die in operational accidents like driving off a bridge or a helicopter crashing because it's tail fell off are in addition to that.

As are the wounded who later die of infections/septic shock, or other complications
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This Nov. 2005 article titled "Understanding Combat Casualty Care Statistics" from The Journal of TRAUMA Injury, Infection, and Critical Care will help you understand these numbers and their definitions.

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