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You're completely right. I'm from Russia. In order to deal with the losses of both sides, it is necessary to consider various sources of various parties to the conflict and adjust them, realizing that any source of information is a political tool for each of the parties to the conflict (For example, according to Zelensky, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine currently amount to less than 80,000 people, while according to Vladimir Putin, the ratio of The losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are equal to 1:5). I am looking for more or less real information from various military correspondents, but there may be problems here besides their venality on both sides. For example, military bloggers can be imprisoned for excessive public criticism of the authorities (I advise you to read about the arrest of Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, also known as Igor Ivanovich Strelkov (2nd Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic). He is currently in prison under Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Extremism). In short, he was accused of 2 posts on his telegram channel. The first post is about the possible surrender of Crimea, the second is about the non—payment of military allowances. At the time of his arrest, he had 850,000 subscribers).

Most likely, as you say. During the assault on Bakhmut alone, the Wagner PMC lost about 20,000 men. Also, your calculations most likely did not take into account the losses of the people's militia of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics before their transition from the militia to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

I counted the number of Russian troops approximately: 420,000 entered in 2022 + 300,000 mobilized + 70,000 employees of various PMCs + 350,000 contractors in 2023 + 450,000 contractors in 2024 = 1,590,000 people. But not everyone got to Ukraine. More than 70% of the 350,000 who signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry in 2023 actually became participants in the war, which is about 245,000. But less than 50% of contract soldiers went to war in 2024, while the rest remained to supplement Russia's troops outside the conflict zone with Ukraine. That's about 220,000 people. Thus, if there had been no losses, the Russian army in the combat zone would now be 1.2 million people.

You have indicated too many losses on the part of Russia. During the entire conflict, Russia conducted only 1 mobilization (September 21, 2022) for 300,000 people. While in Ukraine, the age of mobilization is currently 25 years old. They also want to reduce it to 18-20 years. So I have a question for you. If Russia lost 800,000 people (I think you consider Ukraine's losses to be an order of magnitude less), then who is fighting on Russia's side now? Why is there a constant mobilization in Ukraine? Why isn't Russia mobilising yet?

Moscow is not located in Siberia. It is located in western Russia, on the Moskva River in the center of the Eastern European Plain. The distance between Siberia and Moscow is approximately 3,500 km.

Thanks for the chapter

Thanks for chapter

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