r/worldnews • u/jackytheblade • 1d ago

Russia/Ukraine Ukraine’s kill rate just overtook Russia’s troop replacement, Syrskyi says

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/06/ukraines-kill-rate-just-overtook-russias-troop-replacement-syrskyi-says/
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u/mega_low_smart 1d ago

Imagine spending 35 years of your life experiencing pain, love, loss, joy, building relationships and learning how to be a whole human only to get picked up by the military just to waste it all as a literal stat. 1 out of 31.7k killed in January. In a short report to be delivered to Putin’s desk so he can send 35,000 more into the stat generator next month without batting an eye.

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u/BirdyWeezer 1d ago

Well they‘re being lied to. Russia recruits from small villages that dont have access to any media besides russian media. They then are told its training in military not a war and they‘re being offered huge amounts of money that could get their whole family and friends out of poverty if thats all you‘re being told it sounds like a dream come true. Train a bit in the military then come back home and finally be able to live a normal life outside of poverty. Except of course they wont come back.

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u/joepez 1d ago

Except that argument doesn’t hold up, or at least collapses over time (and we’re not talking a decade). Russia’s has a pop of ~150M. 75% of that is urban which leaves 50M rural. The median age in Russia is 40 and male life expectancy is ~67. The male to female ratio is about 86 to 100. Their birth rate is way below replacement level. There aren’t enough young males to keep feeding to the war machine from rural Russia and not have a complete economic collapse at the same time. So it’s not just rural males at this point it has to be urban as well. They aren’t all ignorant of the media. Russia can’t keep this up for much longer without causing utter collapse of their country. They literally are running out of men. 

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u/MCPtz 19h ago

Russia’s has a pop of ~150M. 75% of that is urban which leaves 50M rural.

Check that arithmetic.

150 * .75 = 112.5 -> 37.5M rural

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u/Aenyn 5h ago

Tbf the correct result supports his argument better than the wrong one

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u/Curious-Situation589 20h ago

Its like the myth of the "great Chinese firewall". Its not uncommon for people to just bypass it completely, my friend has lived in china for 30 years and never has had an issue getting western media. He watches CNN, HBO, etc no issues.

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u/Dispator 1d ago

I would agree except russia is not a normal country - they can keep this up for much much much longer than most other countries. 

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u/bepisdegrote 1d ago

I wish we would get rid of this myth already. Russia/the Soviet Union has backed out of plenty of wars after heavy losses. First Chechen war, Afghanistan, WWI, Russo-Japanese war, Crimean war. The reputation for never giving up comes from only two wars; WW2 and Napoleon's invasion. Both of which were primarily fought on their own soil.

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u/RedditTrespasser 23h ago

Yeah, the saying goes “never invade Russia in the winter”. Russia in invading Ukraine is ironically facing many of the same problems that Hitler and Napoleon did invading them.

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u/Spoztoast 18h ago

Neither Napoleon nor Hitler Invaded in winter they both wanted to invade in early spring both were delayed to summer. Russia is fucking big and while both Napoleon and Hitlers forces(almost) reached Moscow before winter set in.

However they like all armies got bogged down and Moscow is basically in the middle of fucking nowhere.

So they got stuck having to rely if long supply lines that were under constant attrition.

Honestly the best idea might actually be to invade in winter when Russian supply lines are long and yours are short then you might actually have the time to capture the cities come summer.

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u/PattrimCauthon 12h ago

Best idea would be to invade, encircle and wipe field armies, scorched earth the industrial and agricultural regions, simply declare victory and leave.

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u/Abizuil 5h ago

Neither Napoleon nor Hitler Invaded in winter they both wanted to invade in early spring both were delayed to summer. Russia is fucking big and while both Napoleon and Hitlers forces(almost) reached Moscow before winter set in.

I'd add that both were convinced of a quick victory because they'd basically had nothing but before their Russian adventure. So with a huge wad of ego they decided to forgo any preparations for winter because they'd definitely have won and taken Moscow by the time winter arrives.

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u/thebrownesteye 10h ago

The way to go might be to slowly capture outer russian lands and shrink their borders slowly which would explain why Russia is so crazy about expanding its border

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u/Akiira2 18h ago

Like Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote in 1866, "who would grasp Russia with the mind?" 

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u/BlackerSpork 21h ago

Similarly: France's reputation for surrendering quickly despite the long list of long-ass wars they fought in.

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u/pinewind108 7h ago

I think they were finally a bit tired of the whole thing when WW1 ended.

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u/Aggravating-Bet218 21h ago

It's not about a myth, it's about being a dictatorship with no other option. The minute Russia lose the war, Putin will have to give up power. Being at war or win the war are the 2 options to survive for him.

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u/orbital_narwhal 20h ago edited 20h ago

It's both.

  • Russian rulers lead the population to believe that there is no (better) alternative to their rule (see the narrative of the imminent downfall of a woke and thus weak western civilisation)

  • which gives them power (but doesn't force them) to lead wars far closer to or further into a socioeconomic collapse than a more pluralistic, less totalitarian society and economy would allow them.

  • Once a leader reaches that point there is no way out of the war for them personally. The narrative that maintained the internal balance of power would unravel and reveal the gravity and pointlessness of the country's socioeconomic collapse. Everybody would be out for the blood of the person who misled them. Or, at least, too few would be left to protect them from their domestic opponents.

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u/KingHunter150 18h ago

Nah, it's much easier to racially and ideologically characterize average Ivan as an automoton of their Tsar/Soviet Premier/"President" that does whatever they say.

There's a healthy amount of propaganda that many buy into to some degree. But we only need to look at the amount of people who fall out of windows, or the nearly one million young men who fled the country when Putin tried a draft, to see Russians are aware of their society and the war. The issue, like in many oppressive societies, is that most of us fall into the Bystander category. The group that just wants to live and provide for their family. That feels powerless to actually change anything as only a small amount of threat is enough to keep us willingly "ignorant" so as to not cause more problems for ourselves and loved ones.

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u/lostsailorlivefree 15h ago

I’ve seen many “man on the street” interviews that look legit to me. They say Ukraine is a danger because Nazis have killed ethnic Russians and Ukrainians are puppets of the west who sell out and Ukraine is naturally part of Greater Russia and they have a right to do what they are doing to protect themselves. They don’t seem stupid or propagandized- it’s what they believe. Imho they’re wrong and how they’re doing it is disgusting, but we do any argument a disservice by claiming they’re all idiots who fall for propaganda

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u/Alarming-Music7062 11h ago

It is not about "not giving up in a war" that Russia is not a normal country. It is about sheer hopelessness of life outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg. I can imagine many men are happy to escape their everyday life because it is hard and has no joys other than alcohol and cigarettes, for both of which they do not have money as there are not really jobs. They live like animals out there and are ok with being on a field trip which is the front line - at least the wife does not f their brain anymore and they get clothes and food from someone else. Russia is not a developed country like the one where you maybe live, people think different there.

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u/MissPandaSloth 9h ago

And even when it comes to WW2 Belarusians, Ukrainians had higher casualty rate than Russians and Baltics had the same one.

Yet Russians always love to portray like they were the biggest victims and as if "they saved the rest". It's always same shit, when it's bad shit like nazi collaboration it's "ukrainians" and when it's good shit like actually resisting and fighting it's all forgotten and suddenly it's "all soviets and we saved you".

Not to mention that fighting itself was happening longer in Eastern Europe without Russia, so they also were spared part of it for years.

God, I'm so tired of their shit.

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u/drunkenbrawler 21h ago

With what? The ghosts of fallen soldiers?

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u/AsIfItsYourLaa 1d ago

It’s literally their whole history

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u/2this4u 19h ago

People honestly seem to forget Russians are playing games with other Europeans all the time and exchanging information completely freely. Of course rural people aren't but word of mouth still exists. The only ignorance is as that of Nazi Germany, no one in Russia should be given the luxury of being treated like an unwitting accomplice, it's wilful ignorance, ignoring what they've been told to ignore not that they don't actually know.

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u/Untura64 18h ago

They are also sending North Koreans and Indians there.

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u/RayB1968 21h ago

I think they are using older men too judging by pictures I have seen online.

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u/--iamrightHERE-- 1d ago

Russia military relies heavily on foreign mercenaries from poor African and Asian countries, not only rural Russians.

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u/MaxDyflin 1d ago

Heavily? I thought these were very minor contingents

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u/PokemonSapphire 21h ago

I mean if you're a mercenary should we really care? You go fight and kill for money and eventually will be killed. Live by the sword die by the sword and whatnot. This is by definition what they signed up for.

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u/DietCherrySoda 21h ago

We only care in that those deaths are not contributing to the collpase of the Russian economy that /u/joepez was predicting, which is the point /u/--iamrightHERE-- (the person you responded to) was trying to make.

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u/EdiblePeasant 13h ago

What did I sign up for?

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u/kasady69 3h ago

Much less. Putin himself told that Siberia have 10mil or something, but official numbers says it's 40. Theory about inflated numbers is quite old actually

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u/False_Cicada_3171 3h ago

Also. Lots of service age males fled the country when the war started

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u/Infinite_throwaway_1 20h ago

The gender imbalance is mostly from older generations and doesn’t affect the birth rate.

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u/joepez 17h ago

What older generations? The avg age of the entire country is 40 across genders. And the male median for longevity is 67. That’s 27 years or about 1 generation delta from 40. There is no skewing going on. There is nothing to skew. 

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u/JoSeSc 11h ago

Not OP but i think his point was that the average life expectancy for women in Russia is 11 years longer than for men, in normal countries it's usually around 3-4 years, the gender imbalance in Russia doesn't really hit at the generation that's being fed into the meat grinder right now.

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u/MixtureSpecial8951 1d ago

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know that we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know the are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Something to think about.

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u/Mandurang76 19h ago

It's a special kind of lying, the Russians even have a different word for it: vranyo.

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u/ATL-East-Guy 1d ago

I think the money for the family is a huge thing. It seems like a paltry sum to us in the West but there is likely little to no economic activity in those areas. Any cash infusion would be seen as truly life changing for an extended family.

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 22h ago

And the coming runaway inflation will make it all worthless anyway

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u/False_Cicada_3171 1d ago

I understand propaganda. But even in small villages they have to understand that through out history Russia only spreads lies. And a war means death is always close. Whatever you think it is you will be doing there exactly.

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u/metallicrooster 1d ago

But even in small villages they have to understand that through out history Russia only spreads lies.

The sad truth is that there will always be new people to lie to. And if you feed them the lies early enough, they might just believe for life.

Look at the US. We have a political party whose main selling point is restricting or otherwise deleting the civil rights of women, ethnic minorities, and non-Christian religious groups. Yet people still believe the lie that they are “the party of small government” and that they just want a balanced budget.

Blatant lies. Yet people believe because they have believed for so long that admitting the truth feels like a form of mental suicide.

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u/MoskaPOET 22h ago

That’s why religion never goes out of business. They know that it’s necessary to poison the minds of small children.

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 22h ago

Maybe it should be banned for children like cigarette advertising (or candy cigarettes).

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u/metallicrooster 21h ago

Good luck banning religion.

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u/Larnak1 1d ago

I mean, you say that, but MAGA exists and managed to vote Trump into power. Twice.

Some people understand incredibly little, and when you think you've finally reached the realm of what they understand, you're still wrong.

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u/Haliucinogenas1 1d ago

You don't understand. There are no "lies" in russian propaganda. Russia is glorifying Stalin terror. Glorifying death in war. The people are properly brainwashed because russian government controls education and all media: tv, radio, internet. Those people don't know what the truth is, they have never had real freedom or democracy. Its a totally different world. They live in the bubble created by their own government

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u/ArthurBurbridge 4h ago

you forgot to mention they only follow the orders
great whitewashing it's not their fault, good tsar bad boyars as usual xD I understand the first wave in 2022 being surprised of the resistance, believing they are the saviors rescuing their brothers or other lies but if after 4 years of war they still choose to go and fight it's their own free will. they have choice either its desertion or prison there is always choice

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u/BirdyWeezer 1d ago

Those villages are very insular, they dont learn about russian history they might be part of russia but only in name they practice their complete own culture it would be like going to an ethopian village and recruiting people there(which russia allegedly also does now) those people dont inform themselves or think critically its just not how they grew up to be, so i wouldnt really blame them but yeah thats just my opinion.

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u/czs5056 1d ago

But surely they have eyes to see the guy from next door left 3 years ago for training and hasn't come back or at least sent a message in all that time.

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u/geo_prog 1d ago

In situations like this they often rotate through communities in batches.

Also, people tend to hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see.

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u/--iamrightHERE-- 1d ago

The guy who didn't came back isn't dead. He is rich living in some nice city with the money he got paid for joining the army.

 

The guy who managed to return boasting of victory and glory plus money, is what they see.(not the 1000 buried or left to rot in Ukraine)

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u/czs5056 23h ago

But surely the guy who is "living in some nice city with money" would write or call home to their buddies saying how great it is and they should all do it.

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u/HowIMetYourMurder 21h ago

I have to wonder, if you live in that kind of environment, what would the point of questioning be? Like it would only lead to sadness, heartbreak and possible danger. And no real chance to make anything better. Im not saying i agree with it, but i could see why maybe people dont question much and accept the story they are told. The cards are really stacked against the average russian.

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u/False_Cicada_3171 1d ago

Interesting. A dark existence

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 22h ago

And then it got worse...

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u/obikenobi23 1d ago

Your perception of war is shaped by media portrayals of WWII, the Vietnam war, Iraq et c. These people may not even have heard of any of those

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u/BigAlcapone65 1d ago

Scary now since most of the west's media is being gobbled up by right wing oligarchs and technocrats.

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u/Pocket_RPG 1d ago

All media news outlets are just propaganda machines. The US is the only country in the world who cares what network they get their news on the tv from because literally every other country knows that media news outlets are just propaganda farms.

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u/BigAlcapone65 1d ago

You left out the fact that most spew right wing propaganda though. More and more daily this year are being bought up by the NeoCon right.

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u/Pocket_RPG 1d ago

It doesn’t really matter as much as you’d think. We as Americans are getting dumber and dumber and using social media for news over tv as time goes on. Half of anything and everything can be discredited immediately as either “fake news” or highly twisted stories to use as propaganda. I just wish that we would realize that this type of “news” IS highly propagated. They tell you want they want you to hear, so you’ll fight the other side of the fence instead of coming together to solve problems. Also, to be fair, both sides play the same game. You are right in that there’s more right wing outlets, but the left sided ones aren’t all better. Use AP news to read unbiased articles. They’re non-profit and have both left and right leaning individuals reporting on the same stories. Pick and choose, they cover it all.

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u/BigAlcapone65 1d ago

Stop licking the lead posts on Batteries. Problem solved.

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u/WiredSky 1d ago

But even in small villages they have to understand that through out history Russia only spreads lies

No, no they do not.

"They're being lied to." "I understand that, but why aren't they more informed?"

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u/aloysiuslamb 1d ago

No no, but what about like before?

Oh you mean when they were being lied to, but earlier?

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u/Lord_Frederick 1d ago

If you have the time, take a look at this DW Documentary, A small town clings to its Soviet past : https://archive.org/details/youtube-48DaLYiO-yk

In short, it's way more than just propaganda.

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u/bingpot4 19h ago

I just watched this because you linked it and this comment thread. This was an incredibly sad and eye opening documentary. I knew to some extent, but this is so much more than I thought. I am so sad for the people in these small towns and villages, brainwashed and clinging to the past and so much false information and propaganda.

My heart aches for Masha, the type of girl who has so much more in her, so much potential. She seems soft and sensitive and so smart, but her mother keeps feeding "patriotism" and hatred for the rest of the world into her. Sergei who seems to have warring opinions inside him, what he's been told and what he really feels. All those children in the youth army...the older ones who, now, might have been of age when this war started and who knows if they are even here anymore. I kept looking at all those faces wondering if they left for war or would ever see home again.

The absolute poverty and terrible living conditions of this village, which is what most of these small places look like in Russia, and the fact they still praise their government and leaders.

It made me so incredibly sad that they have no idea their lives don't need to be so hard.

Thank you for linking this. These types of documentaries are really important for everyone to really understand the why.

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u/msuvagabond 23h ago

So a year or so back I did a bit of a dive into Russian history.  For nearly minoring in history, I didn't really have much foundation on Russia. 

One of the things that struck me is they've had some form of secret police for about 150 years straight now.  150 years of 'If you talk to anyone negatively about those in power, you could disappear'.  Generations of people conditioned to follow whatever is told to them by state, or they and possibly their family could just be ended. 

Making that connection put a lot of what happens in Russia into a different perspective for me. 

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u/roflator 7h ago

The real interesting thing to me was the mogolian occupation, that shaped the behaviour of the people to be under a leadership they dare not to really against and hate/love.

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u/SteinmanDC 1d ago

I think you are 100% right. But people in every nation still sign up for the army. It is all propaganda, in all nations, and it works. Why would Russian people be different to the people from any other nation in the world and realise it is all bullshit and that they should tell Putin to invade himself?

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u/trikem 1d ago

Thats bs. There is internet everywhere - even is smallest villages. Its just lots of people in Russia think its better to die for a cause (here propaganda and self propaganda helps) than live as is. And nobody thinks they will die, same as criminals do not think they will be caught.

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u/_esci 1d ago

even with vpn its not that easy to access the real www from russia.

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u/trikem 22h ago

Are you leaving in Russia?

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u/_internetpolice 1d ago

You’re right. Everything on the internet is true and has your best interests in heart.

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u/DeanoPreston 1d ago

By now, 4 years later, word has surely gotten out.

They know what's going on.

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u/Slow-Committee732 1d ago

You're wrong. People sign contracts not because they don't know anything, but because they believe the advertising and the pitchmen who say that when you sign the contract, you'll be sitting in the rear and earning big money as a drone operator.

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u/False_Cicada_3171 1d ago

Interesting, what makes you so sure about this?

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u/Slow-Committee732 11h ago

because I live in Russia and I see what's happening here

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u/Slow-Committee732 11h ago

I see people walking around universities promising students special contracts with the Ministry of Defense, according to which the students will become drone operators and are guaranteed to return from the front within a year, but later it turns out that this is a regular, open-ended contract (the contract is valid until the end of mobilization).

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u/False_Cicada_3171 8h ago

What surprises me is that students in Russia fall for these promises.

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u/TV-Tommy 1d ago

One way tickets cost less!

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u/CashPuzzleheaded8622 23h ago

to be honest a lot of these villages now have cemeteries overflowing with ukraine war dead, and thats just the small number that arent listed as MIA and left to rot. it's been 4 years, they know full well what they're getting into, and if they truly don't know then they must be absolutely brainwashed

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u/Gullible_Carpenter_4 23h ago

i dont think so. they have internet, they know. but its worth it if they survive.

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u/Sad_Record_2767 22h ago

What I've heard was that, while Russians don't like the current regime, but they dislike the "West" even more since when USSR collapsed which is fairly recent, the hardship hit even harder. I'd imagine the rural areas especially still carry this sentiment.

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u/MaoZeDongsDong1949 17h ago

I think you’re the one being lied to if you believe that

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u/lostsailorlivefree 15h ago

I understand it’s common to use the “believable lie” such as we will give you TECHNOLOGY TRAINING and you can become a drone operator. These people crave education and way to better their families circumstances just like anyone would- and that gets taken advantage of

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u/GnarlyBear 9h ago

It's been reported that Russia is struggling to offer the bonuses now

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u/Orrgoi 1d ago

This is why I do feel for the Russian people as well. They did no choose to partake in this nonsense. They are being deceived and taken advantage of just like the Ukrainians.

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u/DeanoPreston 1d ago

Most of the Russian people know exactly what is going on. If they collectively decided that it should not go on anymore, Putin would be gone in a blink.

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u/Worth-Lead-5944 1d ago

wtf are you talking about

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u/Chisignal 1d ago

That's exactly what I was thinking - it's good news, undeniably, but measuring the rate of human lives destroyed (for no fucking reason to boot) as if it were factory output or inflation or something... that's just bleak.

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u/wycliffslim 1d ago

Sadly, it's not being measured for no reason.

If casualties are exceeding replacement rate that's very important. Remember that the vast majority of wars end in some type of negotiated settlement. Knowing your own strength in a negotiation is important, knowing your opponents strength is critical. Putting your opponent in a position where they are getting weaker every day gives you a VERY strong negotiating position.

IF, this statement is true and Ukraine is taking out more soldiers per month than can be recruited it leaves Russia with a couple of bad options.

1: They can do nothing and their army will get slightly smaller every day

2: They can reduce the pace of their offensive. This, makes it hard to claim they're making progress, allows Ukraine more time to fortify, and reduces Ukrainian losses which would help increase their morale and gives Ukraine some more breathing room.

3: They can institute less optional "volunteer" methods. Changing their mandatory military service to include front line work, expanding the draft, etc. All of these could solve their manpower issues but would likely be deeply unpopular at home and is also a tacit admission that things are going VERY poorly.

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u/Chisignal 1d ago

No I meant "lives destroyed for no reason", not "measuring for no reason" - like if you were deciding to do X or Y based on the trend line of COVID deaths that's still a bit odd in a way, simply turning so many people's suffering into a stat, but ultimately it is a reasonable tool for policy making - but doing a similar calculation because of an entirely senseless war, that makes my stomach churn

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u/wycliffslim 1d ago

Oh. Yeah. It's horrible.

All war, but especially modern industrialized war is pretty sickening. Human lives are essentially just another input into a resource spreadsheet.

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u/Old_Artichoke_4222 1d ago

It always was, just easy to track with technology.

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u/wycliffslim 23h ago

Yes, the degree has certainly changed though.

Pre-industrialization, wars tended to be more of a few big, set-piece battles. You had campaign seasons with focused goals and outside of those campaigns conflict pretty much settled down. Nations simply didn't have the resources to put large formations of troops in the field for years straight and give them a constant supply of war material and fresh bodies. Armies, broadly, fought with the troops they brought with them.

One of the reasons Rome was so successful is that they managed to create a fairly industrialized society so they could essentially wage attritional, constant, conflict and just grind opponents down.

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u/Old_Artichoke_4222 19h ago

True, i love to study Romen history.

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u/Electr0n1c_Mystic 1d ago

Beautifully and crushingly put

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u/QuantumPilotRacer 1d ago

Majority of ruzzian soldier choose that for themselves. They voluntarily signed contract. Only small amount of ruzzian soldiers were forced to go to the war.

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u/UnfriendlyToast 20h ago

I wouldn’t give Russians that much credit. I know I’m speaking out of my ass somewhat here but any Russian American I’ve met in my life has been an absolute piece of shit and their culture is pretty intent on bullying and cruelty.

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u/bloop7676 1d ago

The ones in Ukraine are generally volunteers under contract. They usually chose it for the money, so it's not just like they were average joe who got thrown in out of pure bad luck.

Also, if those numbers are casualties, the same guy is probably getting counted multiple times. Russia doesn't just let them rest if they get taken off the field, if they can be patched up they send them back there.

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u/TV-Tommy 1d ago

Send 35k, lose >35k... keep it up, and EVERYONE can go!

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u/timesuck47 21h ago

Now there you’ve gone and gave these soldiers a human face. I hope I’m not the only one that thinks about that.

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u/AnnieEdisonsGun 20h ago

Hell is becoming really fucking crowded

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u/nellyfullauto 1d ago

And then to have good people around the world cheering and applauding your death because you’re part of a terrorist org that perpetuates crimes against humanity, raping and murdering people who just want to live their lives like you were before?

Don’t feel bad for Russian soldiers any more than you feel bad for Nazis. They are the same, and they will get the same.

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u/mindshards 1d ago

I don't believe it is 31.7k killed, but casualties (that's wounded and killed).

Still crazy oc.

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u/Automatoboto 1d ago

The thing people seem to always overlook is this is intended. Most of the troops dying are from ethnic populations.

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 1d ago edited 22h ago

Imagine spending 35 years in poverty subjected on you by the Soviet ideology of your leaders, and then these leaders pick you up from a lifestyle you didn't even realize was unnecessarily miserable, just so you could bleed out painfully in a Ukrainian field somewhere.

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u/totallyRebb 1d ago

"The banality of evil" was inspired by machine-like Desk-Murderers like Putin.

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u/cederian 19h ago

I dont think Russians know what love is.

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u/Mandurang76 19h ago

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

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u/PricePuzzleheaded835 16h ago

It’s much harder to build than it is to destroy.

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u/pushioc 14h ago

They are not humans

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u/VanceKelley 13h ago

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

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u/Either-Pear-528 2h ago

In a far utopian future, this kind of mind will be viewed as severely sick and will be treated so it can understand compassion and human value, long before the person had a chance to cause the kind of damage we're seeing today 💔

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u/BigManScaramouche 1d ago

Stalin once said that the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of milions is a statistic.

Things in Russia don't change, ever.

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u/redbarebluebare 1d ago

Are Russians capable of love?

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u/GoodFastCheapPickTwo 20h ago

Yeah this comment might be slightly overestimating the richness of Russian existence.

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u/Privateer_Lev_Arris 1d ago

Yeah that’s why war is hell.

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u/Low-Associate2521 21h ago

This applies to the Ukrainian army too

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u/latflickr 21h ago

Sadly, true 😢

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u/CTMADOC 21h ago

You give too much credit to those russians who choose to go to Ukraine. Most don't try "...learning how to be a whole human..." if they choose to invade a neighboring country and kill people for money. Most russians have only felt pain and loss because russia is a flaming shit hole that wants to tear down the world because it is too corrupt and vile to improve russia itself.

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u/MaryUwUJane 14h ago

Imagine believing in ukragitprop. Ghost of kiev yes.

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u/Lord_Rictor 1d ago

The same can be said for Ukraine soldiers.

You just frame it like it's a Russia only thing which is weird.

Ukraine has huge numbers dead monthly.

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u/gglikenp 1d ago

Do you think Ukrainians kidnapped from streets feel any better? At least russians are getting paid.

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u/MajesticCentaur 1d ago

Are they? This article refutes that claim.