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I can only repeat myself, go over to Mediazona, which is a dissident Russian journalist investigative website. They found a methodology to estimate Russia's losses based on inheritances bequeathed by military-aged males (an information publicly available in Russia). And they were able to verify it. They said that 16,000 Wagner mercenaries had died in the Battle of Bakhmut. Then a document was leaked containing the names of 17,000 dead Wagnerites who died at Bakhmut.The UK MoD recently declared Russian dead/wounded surpassed 700,000. I thought 100K and 200K were obscene numbers. Over the last almost 3 years, many of our colleagues on this board have noted (and I paraphrase here) that high casualty rates are not necessarily considered unacceptable to the average Russian citizen. Accordingly, I too have come to the conclusion that they are correct, though it is still hard to fathom. 700,000. Wow.
According to them, Russia now loses 250 men killed every single day of the conflict, and a further 1,000 are wounded. Every single day. Granted, statistically speaking most of them will be lightly wounded and return to duty (for reference sake, German doctrine assumes that 80% of all WIA return to duty within 5 days). But that would still mean that their forces loses around 500 men for good on a daily basis.
For reference's sake part deux, the army of Nazi Germany suffered 2,000 KIA/WIA/MIA per day in 1944.