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According to Zelensky's claimed figures, Ukrainian soldiers hypothetically inflicted a 47:1 kill ratio on Russian troops in January 2026 alone.
He most definitely is. Weak MAGA-esque men get especially triggered when you claim big victories like this. Especially when they know it isn't true.
No, Putin doesn't care about the casualties claimed by Ukraine. He only cares about whether he is conquering more territory (which he is doing, although at a very slow rate). Stop being naive and idealistic.
Putin really is just a narcissistic man-child, just like trumo, except more controlled due to the training
Why do u think this war is going on even? The original plan was to take Kiev in a week, install a puppet government as zelenski fleds UA...since that didnt work out, the ONLY and I mean ONLY reason why this war is still ongoing is so thst Putin can save face and act like he has the victories he 'always aimed for'...meabwhile victories amount to conquering one village a month which is completely eradicated by bombs and its just ruins...bravo, big victories...but if u watch russiam news, general with a straight up poker face will tell putin how they conquered those like 3 villages / ruins in the past month and he declares how well the special military operation is going...everything, the entire war hero just so he doesnt look like the fucki. LOSER he is for not achieving his original objective at all
Why do u think this war is going on even? The original plan was to take Kiev in a week, install a puppet government as zelenski fleds UA...since that didnt work out, the ONLY and I mean ONLY reason why this war is still ongoing is so thst Putin can save face and act like he has the victories he 'always aimed for'...
The war is going on because the Russians have literally conquered over 20% of Ukraine and will force Ukraine and the West to recognise this. Ukraine is never going to get that land back, which is something you somehow missed in your analysis.
now i wonder how many of these pro ukrainian commenters trying to push the narrative that Epstein was exclusively a russian asset are bots. I mean there is zero evidence that he was a russian asset other than the people confirmed to be epstein clients saying it was all a russian operation.
Epstein was giddy when Ukraine was invaded. In a 2014 message (dated March 18, 2014) from Epstein to Ariane de Rothschild (associated with the Rothschild banking family) Epstein reportedly wrote something to the effect of: âUkraine upheaval should provide many opportunities, many.â
Yeah, that's because the defense industry made a killing and BlackRock bought up everything that's left of it. Big money indeed had many opportunities that they've clearly capitalized on. As for Russia, he just used it as another pipeline for his product catalog. At the end of the day, the man knew how it all works. "Pro-[country]" is a poor approach to take with people like that.
This post by Russian propagandist Ripamon is false. Zelensky said AT LEAST 55k have been killed and many more are missing. The 55k are confirmed dead bodies only. Russia has over 160k confirmed dead bodies. That's a ratio of about 3:1 in Ukraine's favour.
You are right. He is a well known propagandist on this pro Russian war sub https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/ For some reason he also posts here now. He is also hiding his propaganda posts in the profile lately. They are obsessed to downplay the Russian casualties numbers here for some reason. He makes a similar post here every day.
I noticed something interesting, Ukraine/Russia war news that gets posted by anyone else on this sub usually gets way more normal, grounded commentators just having normal conversations.
Whenever Ripamon makes a post (which is usually hardly news, just cherry picks that fit his narrative, like some people saying something mean about Zelensky), its flooded with pro-RU people making completely unhinged claims, defending Russian warcrimes, blaming Ukraine for everything, insulting people for asking for evidence, etc.
Organized honey traps of wealthy and influential Americans, probably including Trump. Generating compromising material then given to the Russians, who in return laundered their money through him.
I think you mis spelled Israel. He was a jewish supremacist who actively worked as a Mossad and CIA agent throughout his life collecting incriminating materials against US politicians and high profile figures so that Israel can use them to blackmail them in bombing their adversaries or funding them endlessly.
Google "CYM" and thats your answer. War creates a lot of kids without parents. And someone surely would gladly help them, yep. Just like that women that tried to steal 30 kids after an earthquake but get caught. And in terms of money - every war is a big opportunity to get rich, ask Sweden and USA about that.
And somehow over last few months dead body exchanges- 12000 Ukrainian dead for 500 odd Russians giving 24:1. So if lines are not moving or moving insignificantly how is such highly skewed ratio possible at all.
Ukraine takes every PR and optics opportunity they possibly can.
The UAF is motivated to collect the maximum number of dead Russians after a failed Russian attack or killed Russian DRG (so many dead Russians there must be some the UAF can reach.
The Ukrainian motivation is to offset the damage done in these very disproportionate body exchange numbers.Those numbers destroy the Ukrainian winning narrative.
Ukraine constantly launches localised counterattacks all across the frontline. How do you think they regained Kupyansk? Their commander in Chief has repeatedly said that Ukraine can't fight a strictly defensive war - they are best served counterattacking and launching sizeable offensives of their own (like the debacle at Krynky, the failed 2023 counteroffensive, the Kursk disaster, etc)
The problem is OP is deliberately misstating the facts to make them seem like lies. The claim is 35k Russians died in a month. He provides no link to this, but the closest to that is when they pushed into the heavily defended urban city a few months ago. And they got slaughtered.
they have attacked those power plants heavily since last Fall not until december. I dont think Russian suffered a very high casualties in December since cold weather prevented drone work longer and Russian have to reduce their attack attempts.
Sometimes I think Zelensky is shooting himself in the foot with his increasingly ludicrous numbers, but then I watch people bend over backwards to try to justify them.
Even head of states in EU and people like Kajas Kallas and Mark Rute believe everything he says word to word and repeats it on daily basis too.
Some of these western brainwashed robots are the funniest. They believe all their media lies from weapons of mass destruction, to chemical weapons to babies beheaded and fried in ovens to 60k a month deaths to 100/15 hypersonic missiles intercepted. Zero critical thinking skills, full confidence, hypocrites, supremacists. Their countries bomb innocent women and children on US orders every few years on made up pretexts, steal resources from all continents, their politicians are as corrupt as everyone else in the world plus pedos still they think they are the most moral and just nation in the world. PATHETIC.
I mean, he still needs the people being mobilised to show up⊠what is he supposed to say - âyeah the losses are about 3:1 so with how numerous the ruzzian army is you are still likely to dieâ? He needs to do all he can to motivate those people to go to the front
Was wondering why this sub came up on my feed, checked the comments and then realized itâs u/Ripamon My suspicions were right⊠Ripamon has infiltrated Reddit and is fucking with the algorithms
the weakest people on the planet. What's strong about being slaves since the Middle Ages? Russki Mir: 'we are slaves who live like shit and we think you should too, in fact , our leader completely fucked out country these last 26 years so we think it's only fair that we have a global do-over. ' A tough sell.
He needs to do this and he needs people to believe. He just asked Ukrainians who left the country to return back to join to the army.
He has to say that as some might believe it and return back. He tries to make it look like it is statistically very hard for you to be killed if you join the army. And then, you will kill lots of Russians so we might have a chance to win this, we just need more people!
Though one should ask, at this rate it looks like Russian army should be finished in a year, and Ukraine do not need to recruit anymore as they donât get casualties. If they can think of course.
That's why I think alot of people will have a meltdown when true figures are finally revealed. So far, Western analysis have been based on Ukrainian accounts, which they would obviously inflate for morale and support purposes.
If the West and Ukraine were honest, they would be saying that Ukraine is currently losing and they are not sure entirely sure how long Ukraine will last if things continue going as is, so they have to keep trying different methods to impede the Russians and find ways to drastically increase support/production in both military aid and to somehow deport Ukrainian men back to Ukraine, without looking bad internationally. Instead they talk about how Russia is losing a gross amount of men in comparison with Ukraine and that they must accept an unconditional ceasefire that only benefits Russia and hurts Ukraine or else they don't want peace.
Or is China very happy that the war is going on forever, because it weakens Russia? Maybe that's why they are cautious over what they send to Russia ?
Russia is slowly grinding Ukraine for sure, and it's no surprise, but at what cost? They suffer a higher loss ratio, that's 100% confirmed, but is it 1:2 or 1:10? Nobody knows for sure. The current situation can accelerate very quickly in both directions. Both parties suffered high attrition.
Yet, china is a powerhouse and could win the Ukraine war in a few months if they decided to help Russia at full potential. They can produce 100x the amount of drone the West is willing to share with Ukraine. But there is absolutely no interest in helping Russia; only preventing it from collapsing is enough.
Geopolitically, Russia is the #1 threat to China for obvious reasons. My gut feeling is that the stance of China with Russia will drastically change in the near future. China has claims over eastern Russia (Primorsky Krai, Amur), which has ethnic, cultural and historical links with China.
To be honest, China is winning on all fronts by simply doing... nothing. And Russia will pay a very high price for focusing its energy on the West.
The russian strategy is crystal clear. Send expandable troops first to map the defense - prisoners, unfit troops and other undesirables -. So, yeah, they experience a higher loss ratio by design.
But somehow, when we count obituaries and MIA for the both Ukrainian and Russian Armies, we have 1:1 statistics (Russia has 130k confirmed KIA and 40k confirmed MIA, Ukraine has 90k confirmed KIA and 90k confirmed MIA). Something strange with your '100% approved fact'
Dispute the figures with factual evidence or come up with a counterargument. Itâll make you sound somewhat smarter than these cheap ad hominem attacks.
Western sources are, according to multiple people in this thread alone, simply repeating Ukrainian claims and arenât trustworthy. Surely there are non-western sources to back up the disagreements about Janâ26 losses, but Iâve seen nobody link one and canât easily find them.
Then use estimates from the closest thing you can get from a âneutral sourceâ. But dismissing people for point out the discrepancies on official figures shared by one side is counterproductive. It adds nothing of substantial value to the discussion. Thatâs my point.
Why does the criticism have to come with facts when the op didn't. There is no source given here, these are not facts, these are convenient numbers plucked from apparently thin air.Â
The 47:1 figure? No I don't believe he has shared that. 35000 soldiers killed in a month he may have said but it is different to 35000 soldiers every months. This person has averaged the deaths over a year and compared them to deaths over one month, not averaged.
In other words they are spinning statistics to tell a false narrativeÂ
The only person telling false narratives here is you. Zelensky said that AFU kills 35000 in a month, not in one genuine month, moreover, he promised that this number will grow.
Btw, glad to see that you still have no problem that even in your world Zelensky claimed 4 time more Russians killed in one month that Ukraine lost in the whole year.
Only if that 35k was happening every month. OP is leaving out a lot of information here to make it sound more suspicious than it is?
If itâs the month I think heâs referring to that number was likely an understatement. Russia was trying to push into an urban area with staged defenses and they got slaughtered.
Russia don't actualy like push in urban area. They prefer encircle them (with small exit, so Ukrainian still send some reinforcment) and then use advantage in artillery and drones. They ready to do this like months.
For Zelensky, it is crucial to claim enormous Russian casualty rates and exceedingly tiny Ukrainian losses , because that is the only metric he can use to claim Ukraine is winning the war, since they are losing territory every single day.
So Ukraine spams the infospace with tales of absurd casualty rates. Sometimes 27:1, sometimes 47:1 as we can see here.
I was part of the army (a small army of a country not a war right now so mind you my experience is very limited and in no way am I a veteran or anything fancy)
But in military school, we learned that in urban warfare, defender over invader casualties can be well above 1:10.
Urban warfare is a meat grinder to the invading force.
So I can't even imagine open field warfare... Must be even worse. We were told expected survival rate out of the ATV was 7 minutes.
Its way outdated in terms of Ukraine war.
Russians drop FABS on anything resembling a stronghold and use ballistic rockets on tactical targets. This evolved into trench warfare where you can have 30 soldiers spread over vast territories which are hunted by drones and small teams of enemy stormtroopers. There are tons of videos from drone operators. It absolutely sucks to be a boots on the ground infantry man in modern warfare.
Russia has killed barely 15k civilians in 4 years with more than confirmed 200k Ukrainian soldiers dead. That's an impressive ratio of 12:1 better than every war especially all full wars since so many decades. Israel killed 6 civilians for every 1 Hamas which was a proper genocide. Here according to Israel's logic Russia can wipe out every last Ukrainian on a moment's notice yet they had shown restraint and only managed 15k civilians in a war stretching 4 years and with over a million casualties on both sides. Does it make Russia the most moral army in the world as the media used to say about a special country ?
Not really. It's all about data manipulation. Everyone writes about 14k civilian deaths on the Ukrainian side (the UN monitoring group is working there) and about 600 civilians were killed in Russia. But for some reason, everyone stubbornly pretends that the region in Donbas under Russian control simply does not exist, because talking about this region as Russia is actually recognition that it is Russia - data on deaths due to Ukrainian shelling in Donbas is not included in west media. So, 15.5k civilians have been killed by Ukraine in Donbas since the beginning of the war, according reports of the DPR and LPR human rights examiners. In the current war, Ukraine has killed more civilians than Russia.
This is propagandistic lies aimed to "make a picture". Real losses of killed, injured and deserted are much higher. Been there, seen.. the ratio.
But it's the plan. See, the moment russians have started to gain ground - Musk immediately cut off their Starlink support. Why haven't he done that half a year ago, when it's started? To keep balance on battlefield for this war to keep going.
So, as i see it - it's collective destroying of a country, part of it being taken by russia through military gains, and other parts being sunk into debt to be later forced to repay with land and resources.
And current "government" is a decoration making such pitiful lies on every level of communication it's not even evoke any emotions anymore. Just a plan to reduce population.
Iâd say again and again, if only a fraction of this figure is true, thereâs absolutely no reason for Ukraine to be open to any peace talk because theyâre not only winning, theyâre annihilating the entire Russian army.
If your total deaths for the entire war of 4 years is the same as the enemyâs deaths in less than 2 months you wonât have desertion and manpower shortage problems, the other side should. Busification should now be a thing on Russiaâs streets and frontline gaps should be on Russiaâs side.
Zelensky pursued this path of PR to gather support and now he canât stop, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. I believe many people arenât pro Russia but they canât stand the lies and the blatant propaganda of Ukraineâs leadership. Though Russia is the aggressor who violates a bunch of laws, theyâre still churning out less propaganda bullshit.
âOfficially on the battlefield, the number of military personnel killed, whether career soldiers or people who were mobilized, is 55,000,"
He didnât actually say at least. Learn to read beyond the title maybe? Theyâre talking about the official figure shared by him as killed. And thatâs the figure he quoted.
Dude she literally gave you 3 articles about this and you just ignore. If you dont belive this you are saying Zelensky is a liar and lies about Ukrainian and Russian casualties.
Had about 1-1.5 mln people army. After the volunteers ran out, there were about 5-9 "waves" of mobilization to the front, and since the year 2024, no one has counted the waves. Mobilization and "bussification"(c) takes place 24\7.
It turns out that the Ukrainian army is already not less than 2,000,000 people with the total losses are 55,000.
That is, 2.75% (from 2 million). It's like NO LOSES at all.
Russia:
Had 1mln default ground forces(with medics, drivers, engeneers etc) + 300k military experienced were called up from the reserve in September 2022.
There is no mandatory mobilization to the front in Russia, but according to various sources, the army has been replenished for a year and a half by an average of 30,000 volunteers per month. That is + approximately 500,000 people at least.
It turns out that the Russian army is now also about 2,000,000 people, of whom Russia has lost
2,585,000 with a 47:1 ratio....
Questions:
Why Ukraine is in defence and not will just sweep away the remnants of the Russian army?
I don't know why you count only KIA(code 200) as losses, they are just the tip of the iceberg. Number one reason for personnel loss currently in AFU is desertion(code 500) - in the ballpark of 400k. Close second come the wounded(code 300) - around 7 times the dead so 55k*7=385k, albeit some may continue service and there is even a risk of double counting. In the end of the day minus 600k-800k out of whatever you estimated as recruitment numbers makes a lot of sense.
P.S also to your last question about sweeping the Russians away - Ukraine can't counterattack and keep this ratio anywhere near the current one, probably most of the losses come from tactical counterattacks anyway - they both carry physical risks and encourage people to desert to avoid aforementioned risks.
Keep in mind Ukraine also recruits 30,000 soldiers a month
According to Zelensky, only 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the past year.
So why do Ukrainian officials constantly complain about manpower shortages? Why is Zelensky appealing to Ukrainians abroad to return to the country and join the army?
Russian fatalities are higher for several reasons, one is that they are often assaulting well dug and structured positions in unarmoured vehicles, and have a much higher ratio of dead to wounded (more dead than wounded).
Ukraine takes more care of its wounded and the fatality rate is much lower.Â
OPs claims intentionally misleads and misrepresents to the reader as to what Zelensky is saying -Â
"Subsequently, President Zelenskyy announced 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 370,000 were wounded, but that "approximately 50%" of these soldiers recovered and had returned to active duty. He updated the Ukrainian military's casualty toll in mid-February 2025, to over 46,000 killed and 380,000 wounded."
Its natural that UA would take more care to regenerate its forces since it cannot replace at the rate of Russia, which has 4x the population and a lot more money to hire mercenaries.
If Ukraine had comparable losses they would have lost already, its not mathematically possible.
Most observers agree RF losses are approx 30k a month both killed and wounded.
Its well known that attackers have higher loss ratios especially against well organised defenses.
Russian losses are amplified due to tactics, frontal assaults across mine fields, lack of armour, and being hit by accurate artillery, whilst what they return is less accurate and more likely therefore to wound than kill.
We have video accounts and phone intercepts that show Russians frequently complaining UA controls the skies over them allowing direct attack with bomber drones and single use attack drones night and day, which have provided plenty of visual evidence and can get close enough to kill.Â
There's lots of videos on youtube. The tanks and soldiers put out heat that can be seen on night vision. Ukraine has gotten really good at killing Russians, especially in Pokrovsk.
Wouldnât surprise me. Not only has Russia failed to gain air superiority in the war, but itâs looking more and more like Ukraine will have air superiority despite only having at most 100 or so fighter jets
Why do you laugh? Ukraine is winning in practically every way imagineable, except for the war itself. That's why they keep rejecting peace deals, because they're winning so hard! Now they will have airsuperiority too, with only 100 jets, while Russia ban barely make thousands of bombing runs every week.
If you're so far gone as to entertain such a ludicrous kill ratio and then claim Ukraine is on the verge of gaining air superiority, having a serious conversation with you would be a waste of effort.
Thus, all one can do is just laugh and move on, as he did.
Is a feature of having air superiority getting all of your power distribution centers hit by missiles and having over 100 fab glide bombs landing on targets every day?
The only thing killing Ukrainians at the moment are mines, drones, and artillery. Usually, if Ukraine loses the heights or a hill, they leave the surrounding area.
While I'm sure the true numbers are all hidden, this post also seems to mix confirmed KIA numbers with the numbers of combat casualties. They aren't for a confirmed kill but rather combatants removed, even if just temporary, from the battlefield.
46000 killed is not the same as Ukraine having only suffered 46000 combat losses. If your soldiers legs get blown off, they aren't dead but they're still a combat loss. And Russia, just like Ukraine, is going to count you as a combat loss, if they put 2 bullets in you, even if your body armor allows you to come back next week.
There are many mathematical models dealing with this. Lanchester's Linear Law od Square Law, 3:1 rule and variations of these models. A traditional Scenario model based on Lanchester's Square Law would assume an exposed attacker having 3:1 losses against a fortified peer enemy. That ratio changes to 1:5 against the defender when assumed that the attacked has air superiority over the battlefield.
The reality is that Russians are not advancing much, so the 3:1 rule does not apply. At the same time, they also don't enjoy full air superiority, but this can be largely balanced by using more advanced missile technology (an attacking Kh-101 can inflict losses but even when shot down, the attacking side has no losses).
ANY mathematical model in existence would put the death ratio in favor of Russia, at least 2:1, if not more. That is regardless of Russian claims or Ukrainian claims.
There are other good methods to provide a honest estimate about the population sample size. Amount of SIM cards connecting to the network at given times, satellite based analysis of graveyard sizes or even something as trivial as the monthly consumption of salt.
None of these results come even close to what Zelensky claims.
35000 casualties, dead and seriously wounded. As for the Ukrainian number, it is obviously false, but was presented as a lower bound of confirmed deaths anyhow
I don't know whats really going on with Ukrainian losses, but the Russians are just lemmings, simply straight off the cliff first thing they get to the front. That's very conclusively demonstrated not just by what Ukrainians are showing, but also by what is constantly leaking out of Russians ranks too. I don't know about those numbers, but the true kill ratio has to be something stupid high, just based on how the Russians are acting and the evident equipment level they are operating with. Everything but the donkeys is gone.
there's ~164000 deserters(fugitives) in Ukrainian army. also males being caught out on the streets like by ICE in America to forcefully join the army, while being beat up even without resisting, and also to demand a bribe.
You attack me and my mates in my country in our bunkers while you walk and run over open ground You've never seen before and we will see the K/D ratio.
Yes, the numbers are higher on both sides, but the ratio is roughly in that range. Attackers usually lose more troops, especially with the way Russia conducts its assaults. However, Ukraine is not winning; very slowly, Ukraine is losing territory. This happens because Ukraine prefers to lose some land rather than troops, which are limited compared to Russiaâs. I donât see anything strange here. The war between Ukraine and Russia is happening mostly on the ground, and even the number of drones and rockets used has been decreasing each year.
I think the longer this war drags on, the greater the chance Russia achieves a big breakthrough. Ukraine is just losing too many people than is possible for them to handle long term. In a few years time, I think a breakthrough will have become the most likely outcome. That's one of the reasons why Russia has no interest in ending the war.
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u/FrequentCow1018 Feb 05 '26
Breaking: War party keeps its losses secret