r/ukraine • u/UNITED24Media Ukraine Media • 12d ago
WAR Russia Loses 2,090 Troops in 24 Hours, Highest Reported Daily Toll of Full-Scale War
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russia-loses-2090-troops-in-24-hours-highest-reported-daily-toll-of-full-scale-war-22983263
u/NoemMeThijs 12d ago
It so absurd, I live in a village with around 8k people. If in one day 1/4th of my local population will be gone it will show massively.
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u/Fit_Patient_4902 12d ago
The city I live in has 1.2mil. All of the residents would be dead…
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u/Amazing-Heron-105 12d ago
That's crazy to think about. I live in a reasonably sized British city and it's twice the population of this city in losses. Never thought to think of it like that before. Wow.
Birmingham's population is shown on Google as 1.2 million. That's a pretty big city.
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u/ScoobyDoNot 12d ago edited 12d ago
The reported Russian losses are killed and wounded, so actual deaths tend to run around 1/3 to 1/2, depending on the conditions and the support services within the army. It being Russia, they're likely very poor.
That said, half your city dead, and a significant portion of the rest suffering disabling wounds isn't great, and arguably a greater drain on your society.
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u/Exciting-Emu-3324 11d ago
Considering that FPV drones are responsible for most casualties these days, I wouldn't expect historical killed:wounded ratios to hold up.
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u/Runktar 12d ago
between casualties and men fleeing the war adding up to roughly 2.5 million Russia has lost about 18% of its men age 18-40.
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u/_invalidusername 12d ago
I can't see Russia ever recovering from this. Between losing such a large percentage of what would be the most economically productive part of the population, being heavily sanctioned, and needing to pay Ukraine repatriations after the war finally ends will lead to the collapse of Russia. It's going to be a good day when it happens
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u/BWW87 12d ago
They recovered from WW2 and that was a much bigger shit show than this. Seems like they will be hurting though since unlike WW2 they aren't having a major victory creating a huge union of countries.
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u/Speak_Plainly 11d ago edited 11d ago
If you look close at what ethnicities from which parts actually died in the 2nd world war, and how the Russian population grew by conquering vast territories in Eurasia in the 18th and 19th century, and even in WW2, you'll get a different picture.
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u/Runktar 9d ago
No they never recovered from WW2 what are you smoking? every generation since then has been smaller then the last with these last few being extremely small and getting smaller. Russia right now only has 8 million men age 18-30 and the only reason they can fight this war at all is them tapping into their older men alot 30's 40's.. Even then they are decimating the men they currently have and they will not recover from this either.
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u/Lonely-Abalone-5104 12d ago
Trump is already trying to ease sanctions and make deals with Russia. He would totally help them recover in the war ended
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u/Runktar 12d ago
The funny part is the brainwashed moron Russian's who still think they are going to take over and somehow control Ukraine. Then again we have Trumpers who still somehow think he is going to make their lives better so propaganda is a hell of a drug.
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u/formerly_gruntled 12d ago
Even before they settled into the stalemate, people pointed out that there weren't enough Russians to occupy Ukraine. Now there are even fewer.
Putin is on a fool's errand.
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u/sobag245 10d ago
On one you are right but never underrestimate the enemy. Ever though their losses are heavy they also learn a lot from this war, making them still a big danger for the future.
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u/ban25 12d ago
At the Battle of the Frontiers, the French lost 27,000 men on a single day in August, and 260,000 in one month:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frontiers#Aftermath15
u/SmoothOperator89 12d ago
Keep in mind that casualties also include injuries and captures. But it's still wild to imagine that many dying, going to the emergency room, or getting arrested.
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u/FitLaw4 12d ago
2200 where I live. That's less than 2 days
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u/DisIsMyName_NotUrs 12d ago
My village gets killed in a bit less than 4 hours at this rate.
Which is insane
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u/Cardplay3r 12d ago
I mean compared to the world wars these are tiny losses. Even more so when you consider it includes the injured.
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u/everydayasl USA 12d ago
Tip of the day: Russians, stay alive go home immediately.
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u/PaniacThrilla 12d ago
Absolutely wild. Russia has lost more troops in this war than the US has lost in every war since Korea combined. Casualties in Vietnam alone caused riots in the streets. But Russians just take it and don't care. I get it, they live in an authoritarian country and speaking out against the government can get them jailed for a decade, or something worse.
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u/Dry-Marketing-6798 12d ago
Yep it is truly insane. Putin is insane.
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u/lauri2 12d ago
He is not the reason, he is a symptom.
It has been the same before him and there is no reason to believe it will be any different after him.
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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy 12d ago edited 12d ago
He is not the reason, he is a symptom.
It has been the same before him and there is no reason to believe it will be any different after him.
Based on what I have seen/heard/read and the people I have talked to, there was a genuine change in the mood of the country during the short period after the USSR fell apart and before Putin took over. Like a sort of mini-renaissaince.
But when the economy started to fall apart and Yeltsin basically turned the economy over to the oligarchs again, it went back to the same-old, same-old.
This suggests to me that the problem in fact is NOT the people at large necessarily, but mostly those that end up in power over them.
And you could argue that it is the people that cause that, but in such situations it's rarely easy to surmount the "momentum" of the ruling classes and their power/influence.
Probably what will have to happen is the same thing that happened in 1917: rise up and literally assassinate the ruling class. (But don't make the mistake of letting the same sort of people take power again. After the Communist revolution the moderates were pushed out and the hardcore authoritarians took over again.)
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u/300Savage 12d ago
It's approximately equal to US casualties in every war combined in the past 100 years - including WW2.
edit: Actually, you can add WW1 in there to get to 1.6 million.
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u/Adster_ 12d ago
That this level of lives lost and destruction is happening in 2026 in just unbelievable.
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u/Comprehensive-Art207 12d ago
Russia only wins when it is supplied US arms and fighting an enemy with summer uniforms during winter.
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u/DurtyKurty 12d ago
Humanity has spent a lot of time building newer weapons to kill more people faster.
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u/MonsieurReynard 11d ago
It is remarkably close to the number of Iraqi and Afghan civilians who died during US invasion and occupation of those countries between 2003-20, however. Because of course, that was the appropriate response to 19 Saudis hijacking airplanes.
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u/Sylvanussr 12d ago
The US enacted the draft for Vietnam, but the Russian soldiers going Ukraine have all signed up by choice (other than between September-October 2022). It’s a lot more destabilizing when the people dying in a pointless war were forced into service.
Even so, it’s still remarkable how little unrest there’s been in Russia, given the sheer amount of casualties.
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u/mysevenletters Canada 12d ago
I've read (but not verified) that it's primarily been the Russians from the east or other far-flung vassal areas, not the "ethnic, white Russians" of the handful of large cities (the people who matter). And as long as the people of Moscow, or St Petersberg aren't on the front lines, they don't really care who has to charge across the minefield.
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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy 12d ago edited 11d ago
And as long as the people of Moscow, or St Petersberg aren't on the front lines, they don't really care who has to charge across the minefield.
Which is one of the key reasons why Ukraine has taken the conflict to St. Pete and Moscow this year.
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u/IncorporateThings 9d ago
It's because Russia's not using a bunch of urban Russians. They're using prisoners, mercenaries, poor/rural/minority conscripts, etc. Most people really underestimate how many mercenaries Russia is relying on.
This war hasn't touched the major cities until more recently with Ukraine's drones hitting them and their oil/gas capabilities getting slapped around. The Russians "that matter" to Puto are only just starting to feel it. Breaking Russia's urban middle class is the way to actually cause political instability in Russia. But this means a) treating Russian civilians badly (which Ukraine is too honorable to do), and b) risking escalation.
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u/diedlikeCambyses 12d ago
I've been trying to remibd people of that from the beginning. They have a high tolerance for this.
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u/ChornWork2 12d ago
Russian soldiers fighting in ukraine either signed up for large bonuses, or are the type that may be compelled but society is unlikely to care about. they are not sending normal conscripts to fight in ukraine as general matter.
so i can understand the lack of unrest, b/c service can largely be avoided by most russians. what I don't understand is how they continue to get so many to sign up for bonuses when they see how few people live to spend them.
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u/Doggoneshame 12d ago
The mother’s that were out protesting about the casualties during the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan are no longer around. Now it seems mothers in russia only care about collecting money when their sons are killed.
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u/ArtShare 12d ago
I don't think going home for ruzzian soldiers is a safe bet. Surrendering is what they should do.
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u/Illustrious-Gas-9766 12d ago
It's a price Putin is willing to pay
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u/Ukraine_Invicta 12d ago
well actually, russian people are paying for his madness...
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u/Stuman93 12d ago
It's just insanity they keep throwing bodies at this. They've basically doomed their country for a piece of land they didn't need in the first place.
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u/thegamingfaux 12d ago
They really wanted an ezpz quick land grab for some wheat, steel, and oil industries throw in more ports too.
And in the end they got a quagmire that’s bleeding every industry, their population, and the wealth they cling to.
Even if they had gotten a quick win I imagine the resistance within would have been hell.
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u/Sylvanussr 12d ago
Tbh I think the resource benefits are secondary to ideological motivations in terms of what Putin wants out of this war. The chance of benefitting from this war economically has long evaporated, it’s the dreams of empire that I think keep him going.
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u/candis_stank_puss 12d ago
ezpz
is that the new way of writing easy peasy?
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u/thegamingfaux 11d ago
It’s the way I’ve been writing it for 20 years but if it’s new to To ya welcome
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u/wilit 12d ago
Look into their military tactics of every conflict they've fought in the last 150 years. Nothing has really changed.
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u/usrlibshare 12d ago
Wrong, something very important has changed dramatically. 2 Things in fact:
For the first time in their history, less bodies are born in their country than they throw away
You can no longer win wars by throwing bodies at them. Because a human takes almost 2 decades and massive resources to become somewhat ready for combat. A drone costs a tiny fraction of that time and resource investment. But each drone can easily destroy a human, or multiple humans.
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u/Alissinarr 12d ago
Meatwaves are high % foreign (to Russia) troops from aligned countries.
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u/usrlibshare 12d ago
So those countries get defeated and weakened alongside russia, while the relationships between the dictators suffer.
Seems like a win win
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u/ioncloud9 12d ago
For a piece of land that will be unusable for generations because of unexploded ordnance littering it.
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u/Susurrus03 12d ago
Putin has to save face, no matter how many bodies it takes.
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u/Stuman93 12d ago
Oh yeah I get why HE wants to keep going. Just crazy to me he hasn't gone out a window or down some stairs Russia style yet.
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u/Antaiseito 12d ago edited 12d ago
Still baffling that he's living in a world where he's trying to save face by wasting more and more and more lives and resources while trying to murder his neighbours.
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u/readonlyy 12d ago
Russia still has a supremacist, imperialist mentality. They are stuck in the past, when invading neighbours was normal. They tolerate Putin because they don’t object to murder or suffering as long as they don’t fail. Which is precisely why they must fail.
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u/DruidDog 12d ago
i wonder if they will be found
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u/CrateDane 12d ago
Regardless of the drama about firings of defense ministers and army chiefs, someone high up in the AFU is clearly doing something right. And a LOT of people lower down are too.
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u/MikeinDundee 12d ago
The craziest thing is that the mothers, dads, sisters, and wives are all so okay with this.
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u/ANQsavedmylife 12d ago
They figure “At least it wasn’t me.” so no big deal.
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u/Avlonnic2 12d ago
There was an article recently about wives, mothers, fathers, grandparents, etc., encouraging or forcing men to sign up - because they all want the death benefits.
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u/PhilosophizingPanda 12d ago
Not all. Watch the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin.” It showcases a town where people are both for and against the war and the fear of speaking out, and the very real fear and sadness that accompanies this whole situation. The filmmaker fled the country before release and it’s a fascinating inside look. Highly recommend
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u/cyrixlord 12d ago
looks like they are in areas that were I've in the rear. logistics, cooks, drone pilots truck drivers, etc the things that should have been protected at the front lines before they apparently collapsed too. slava Ukraini
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u/metallicadefender 12d ago
Thats half of what USA lost in the entire Iraq War.
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u/Sylvanussr 12d ago
US had 4,500 deaths in Iraq, but 32,300 overall casualties, which is the number to compare here. Still a remarkable comparison, though, especially considering that iirc the Russian fatality/casualty ratio has been much, much higher.
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u/Anen-o-me 12d ago
60k losses a month would force Putin to conduct a mass mobilization as voluntary contract soldiers could not make up the short fall anymore, it basically can't already.
We're in the end game now.
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u/momoblu1 12d ago
How exactly does Ukraine General Staff and UK Defense Intelligence confirm these casualties?
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u/diedlikeCambyses 12d ago
They don't. There's formulas for estimating but it's usually only after a war that we really know. We can assume there is a spike and the number is high. We also know the killed to wounded ratio for these casualties is about 60% killed, 40% wounded. So you could expect 700-1200 Russian soldiers were killed in 24 hours, which is still just wow. That's alot of people
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u/slavaukrine 12d ago
At the beginning of the war they used the formulas. The past two+ years they are using drone footage for 90 to 95% of the of the total casualties because that is percentage of Russians are being killed by drones.
Also the normal war ratio of wounded to killed is 3 wounded to 1 killed. Since drones have become dominant the ratio is 2 killed to 1 wounded.
Also, NATO and the Ukrainians have intelligence services collecting Russia data. Before they went exclusively with drone footage conformation the numbers were compiled by all three, intelligence, formulas, drone video confirmation.
Meaning it may not be exactly right, but it’s really close.
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u/NormandyLS 12d ago
I feel like if you're hit by a drone anywhere near the 'front' it's just over. My intuition tells me that the ratio for Russia in the past couple years has gone to 8 killed for every 1 wounded, and the wounded would mainly be from deep-strikes as opposed to extracting the injured
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u/slavaukrine 12d ago
Russia only tries to extract officers. Two years ago they were instructing wounded soldiers to commit suicide by using a grenade. I do not know if that is still in practice.
2deaths to 1 wounded came from the Ukrainian military last fall.
Thus, by now, your “feeling” of 8:1 could actually be right.
Now that they are using ground, FPV, and bomber drones, in combined arms missions, it could be even higher.
The bottom line for me is Ukrainian lives saved. Anything that will end the war with the least amount of Ukrainians dead, hurt, or permanently wounded mentally and physically I am for.
Everybody needs to keep reminding the idiots: Ukrainians accept surrenders and actually will go above and beyond to protect the Russian soldiers who do surrender.
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u/Agreeable_Noise112 12d ago
Does the AFU has documted evidences for all of them?
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u/Confident_Benefit_11 12d ago
Yes, the majority are caused by drones and the footage is saved for the government run points program so units can "buy" more/newer equipment. Though most infantry also wear gopros for the same reason. Both instances have to prove their kill with footage or else they don't receive points or any monetary bonuses.
All of it is saved. The leader of Magyars Birds just spoke about it in a interview this week. He said they get terabytes (tetrabytes?) like every 24hrs and that's just his unit
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u/Hot_Indication2133 12d ago
Last interview I saw he had a counter beside him and was telling the interviewer the numbers as it increased
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u/ballom29 12d ago
Wich raise a question.
Doesn't the system discourage the use of mines and other indirect weapons ? After all why use a weapon that cannot get you points (unless it happenned to be caught by a surveillance drone) ?That remark following my quesiton is grossely oversimplifying, i'm sure soldiers still use mines and such because they value the tactical advantage and the possibility of staying alive, but i still wonder if it does make them less eager to use them.
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u/SophieSix9 12d ago
Needless bloodshed and they won’t blame their government for it for even a second. Russian apathy will always be their downfall.
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u/oneshiel1 12d ago
After this war is over, I assume, far more than that one war hero could use the call sign "Grey Death". Because even White Death himself probably has a smaller kill count. And the guy was a legend.
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u/katalyst107 12d ago
What caused the unusually high number? Was there some kind of offensive or larger attack?
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u/DiligentInterest1325 6d ago
Beautiful but just troops? Why not bomb whole towns? There are no civvilians in Ruzzia only more targets.
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u/i-touched-morrissey 12d ago
Look at those kids. They don't want to be doing this either. Putin is evil.
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u/ravnhjarta 12d ago
The russbots around the social mediaverse beg to differ. It's a clown show. Nonstop nonsense propaganda from ghost accounts. Keep at it AFU!
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u/Formulka Czechia 12d ago
With Vivaldi and all the fake advances being revealed they are dying literally to gain nothing. This is insane even for Russia.
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u/prickleynomad 11d ago
How many people from rural areas and other countries are in the mix. It's the Innocent Ukraine's I care about.
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u/Purple_Haze 11d ago
Not the highest, the second highest:
- 2200 on 20.12.2024
- 2090 on 28.09.2026
- 2030 on 29.11.2024
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u/IndustrialPuppetTwo 12d ago
Unfortunate there is still a lot of willing meat to throw into the fire.
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u/WiseAct446 12d ago
I can't believe they keep losing them. I mean, I've misplaced my car keys, but I haven't lost 2700 of them in one day.
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u/Zealousideal7801 12d ago
The AFU is getting more efficient by the day, quite literally. That's good news ! I hope this pressure and that of the Frontline gains will bring Putin to his knees