The picture you see above, comes from an item that crossed my Telegram feed yesterday. You can read for yourself what the numbers say. A little MAFF will tell you that Ukraine now has effectively about 1.1 MILLION dead – most of those listed “Missing in Action” are, in fact, dead. And that is not even the true extent of the horror facing 404 – Country Not Found.
It so happens that, before I went on vacation, a group of Russian hackers, almost certainly under the direction and employment of the Russian General Staff, hacked into the Ukrainian General Staff’s computers, and released files indicating a total of 1.7 million dead and missing. The Ukrainians and Europeans furiously denied and mocked these numbers, telling us all it was “Russian propaganda”. I am not nearly so sanguine about them, because the data released by the Russians contained actual names, passports, personal biographical data, and other information, that shows the information is likely real.
Whether you accept these numbers or not, the facts on the ground speak to a level of carnage in Ukraine that the European continent has not seen since the days of WWI trench warfare. And the numbers are completely and totally lopsided in favour of the Russians, who are now evidently inflicting anywhere between 10:1 and 20:1 losses on the Ukrainians.
This is not hyperbole. If you look at the latest exchanges of dead bodies from each side, the Ukrainians have routinely received between 30 and 50 times as many dead from their side, as they have given to the Russian side. We can put the blame for this squarely at the feet of the Ukrainian politicians and generals, who insist on demanding that their men stand and fight to the last man, for every square centimetre of territory.
It is an absurd, idiotic, insane way to fight, against an enemy with overwhelming superiority across every single element of warfare that actually matters.
However, even accepting what we know about Ukrainian “tactics” – if one can even call them that – are we really supposed to believe that the Ukrainians have lost 1.7 million dead? Those numbers would make any reasonably sceptical analyst blanch in disbelief.
By the Numbers
For the record, I personally do consider the numbers of around 1.5-1.7 million dead, on the Ukraine side, to be about right. Nor am I alone in this respect. Col. Douglas Macgregor, Maj. Scott Ritter, Andrei Martyanov,and Larry Johnson, all of whom are far better informed on these matters than I am, reckon the Ukies have lost about 1.5 million dead, give or take a few hundred thousand.
Perhaps the best take I have seen on the subject of Ukrainian casualties, comes from Alexander Mercouris, who put up an analysis a few weeks ago based on information he had received from one of his sources inside Russia, in one of his daily broadcasts. I cannot be bothered to go find the actual program, but it is not hard to find if you are so inclined.
His source performed a statistical analysis of combat units in both the Ukrainian and Russian armies. The analysis was shocking in terms of the outcomes and results. Among front-line combat units – that is to say, actual line and mechanised infantry battalions and brigades engaged in direct contact combat with the enemy – the Ukrainians routinely ran up 80% KIA rates across their units. The Russians, by contrast, ran up no more than 15-20%, and that too only in extreme cases.
To put that into perspective, imagine a Ukrainian battalion of 800 or so riflemen. That battalion would have lost 640 or so of its men within a few WEEKS of combat. It would be rendered combat-ineffective in a matter of days, and would be broken shortly thereafter.
This is because the life expectancy for a Ukrainian soldier – especially a “mobik”, or mobilised conscript, dragged kicking and screaming off the streets of 404 and stuffed into a black van by the TCC thugs who roam the country these days – is around four hours on certain parts of the front line. These men arrive with barely a week’s worth of training, a rifle, and a few dozen rounds of ammunition. They are immediately subjected to extremely intense shelling, bombing, and drone attacks. And they are dying in their hundreds and thousands across Ukraine.
This is not war. It is savage, unrestrained, merciless butchery. And the people responsible are not the Russians – they are the Ukrainian political and military elites, backed by the vampiric Western GloboHomoPaedoPharisatanists who caused this war to happen in the first place.
There is no punishment in all of Hell severe enough for those people, given what they have done.
Russian Casualties
The Russians, for their part, do not face similar issues. Their battlefield medicine is, by all accounts, superbly organised and well-coordinated. The Russians claim that 90-95% of their “sanitary losses” – that is to say, lightly wounded – return to active duty fairly quickly. They are very, very good at evacuating their wounded, especially severely injured servicemen, quickly and effectively, even under intense enemy fire, within the critical “Golden Hour”. And their battlefield surgeons are superb.
This is not my own hyperbolic estimation of things. All you have to do, is to go onto Telegram and find the videos from Russian channels of their battlefield evacuations and medical care. Put simply, the Russians understand war, they know how to fight, and they are obsessed – especially these days, now that they have disposed of their most bloody-minded and stupid commanders – with keeping their own casualties low.
Western whore-media insists on portraying the war as a stalemate between Russia and Ukraine. This is a flat-out lie, and every last whorenalist who utters it, deserves nothing less than a very severe public flogging. Their lies have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, for absolutely no good reason.
The same analysts I just mentioned, put their estimates of Russian KIAs in the 125K-150K range, which I consider eminently reasonable, given the Mediazona project’s open-source datasets come to roughly the same number.
This means the Russians are, indeed, inflicting a kill ratio of at least 10:1 on the Ukrainians – and in many cases, far higher. Indeed, when you sit and think about the rate at which Russians are losing men, you will notice that their casualty rates slowed significantly from January 2023, during the worst parts of the assault on Bakhmut, past the capture of that same city; spiked in late 2023 with the start of the siege of Avdeevka; and then declined dramatically after that.
In fact, the Mediazona data show a steep downward trend in Russian losses ever since about a year ago. Where the Russians were once losing 800-1,000 men every week, they are now losing 100-150 men.
Contrary to the lies of the whore-media, the Russians are not using “meat-wave” tactics, at all. They are carefully preserving and building their manpower – for what, exactly, it is hard to tell, since people like me have been predicting a massive Russian offensive every three months for over 2 years now.
Russian Recruitment Incentives
The Russians are not struggling to meet their recruitment needs, either. Partly this is because they are offering huge payouts for contract soldiers to serve in the Army. Those payouts appear to have increased substantially since my first visit to Russia after the start of the SMO, back in August 2023.
Back then, I took the following photo in Makhachkala, Dagestan:
That picture basically says that service in the armed forces will result in a salary starting from 204K rubles per month, which came (at that time) to 2.45M rubles a year. Given exchange rates back then, which I think were around 85 RUB or so to the dollar, that would have meant an annual salary of 28,800 per year. (This is on top of a signing bonus of 195,000 RUB from the Ministry of Defence, and 100,000 additionally from the Republic of Dagestan.)
This doesn’t sound like much by American standards – but by Russian standards, especially outside of Moscow, that is a LOT.
When I was in Moscow this time, two years later, I saw posters exactly like these, all over the city:
That poster says the salary for the first year of service is 5.2M rubles, which is more than double the salary from 2 years ago, for residents of the Moscow region. That comes to something approaching US$65K a year, which is HUGE by even Muscovite standards.
The same is true for other regions of Russia. If you go to St. Petersburg, you will see posters like this one:
That poster says that residents of St. Petersburg will receive 5M rubles in the first year of service, with a one-time payment of 2.5M rubles, and a monthly salary of 210K rubles. The main caption of the poster reads, “Of the Hero-City – Our Heroes”, with a play on the Russian reflexive preposition, Свои (“ours”, or “our own”), against the acronym СВО (Специальная Военная Операция – literally, “Special Military Operation”).
This is why the Russians are easily able to recruit between 30K and 40K a month, which is more than sufficient to replace their declining losses of both KIAs and WIAs, and the inevitable “churn” and turnover that comes from servicemen completing their contracts and exiting the military. Unlike the Ukrainians, the Russians do not have stop-loss orders in place (except for the 300K men they mobilised back in September 2022, who are in for the duration of the conflict, whether they like it or not). So they are always looking to recruit men to replace those who have had a bellyful of war, and want to return to civilian life.
Indeed, many of those who leave, end up re-upping their contracts and signing back on. Those salaries are, after all, very lucrative by Russian standards, and those sign-on bonuses are sufficient for a big down-payment on an apartment in Moscow. And their families have to eat too. Service in the army is now considered an honourable and financially viable alternative to work in the private sector among Russians, not least because the Russian people consider the conflict in Ukraine to be an existential one for them.
I am not joking about that last part, either. There are essentially NO liberals left in Russia. Even those who opposed the war at the beginning, and who dislike Putin personally, have come around to the view that the only acceptable outcome now, is for a complete and total Russian victory. I know some of these people personally – to a man or woman, they are resolutely dead-set against any kind of half-arsed compromise that sacrifices what Russia has fought for at such great cost, for the sake of a bad peace deal.
(“Peace deal”, just by the way, sounds absolutely hilarious in Russian – if you say пиздел in an open setting, it is fair to say that a Russian babushka might very well wash your mouth out with soap. Publicly. And painfully.)
Strangling the Enemy
When you add to all this the fact that both Russian and Ukrainian sources confirm the Russians have something like 700,000 men engaged in active operations in Ukraine (only a small percentage of that are actual combatants), and the Ukrainian army now measures around 200,000 men in size across the whole front line, then you have a truly apocalyptic picture.
The war is not in a stalemate. Very far from it. The Russians are cracking and breaking through Ukrainian front lines everywhere. In particular, they are capturing ground in the major logistics centres and fortifications that actually matter for Ukraine: Pokrovsk, Konstantinovka, Seversk, and Kupyansk.
When those four cities fall – and they WILL fall – then Russia will have effectively smashed whatever is left of Ukraine’s core defences in Donbass.
From that point, there will be very little stopping them from assaulting the remaining big cities in Donetsk region – namely, the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk urban agglomeration, which effectively comes to one really big city. This is at the same time as Russian forces are now moving (relatively) rapidly toward Zaporozh’ye City itself, which is the one key bit of that oblast’ which the Russians do not yet control.
When those strongpoints fall, the relentlessly retarded narrative about “Russian stalemate” and “heroic Ukrainian resistance” will collapse with them. At that point, there will be a full-blown panic in the West, because the European elites will no longer be able to hide the sheer scale of the disaster they face. They have sunk every last shred of credibility, money, weaponry, and support into this conflict, and they are losing, badly, against a country that they constantly disparage as nothing more than a tenth-rate military power.
That same “tenth-rate” power has effectively destroyed NATO. It has defeated the best the Europeans and Americans can throw at it. And it has wiped out 1.7 MILLION Ukrainians in the process.
It is vital to understand that, from the Russian perspective, this relentless, remorseless, ruthless grinding down of Ukrainian men into blood, bone, and gore, is awful, but necessary.
The Russians intend to solve the “Ukrainian problem” once and for all. To do so requires them to eliminate the root causes of the conflict – and that means wiping out the stain of Ukrainstvo, the “khokhol mentality” that embraces a blatantly revisionist view of history, glorifies Nazism and anti-Russian racial hatred, and embodies a totally corrupt way of life that believes it is perfectly justifiable to steal anything that is not nailed down.
By definition, this means wiping out anyone and everyone that could potentially keep and bear arms, in an insurgency, against a future Russian administration in what used to be a key part of the old Russian Empire.
What we see in Ukraine is nothing more, and nothing less, than a very brutal (and very Russian) way of imposing the core demands of demilitarisation, de-Nazification, and neutrality for Ukraine, that were the conditions the Neo-Tsar stated were the key aims of the Russian government when he launched the SMO in February 2022.
And, because it is the Russians doing this, their methods are effective and permanent.
The outcome will be the same, regardless of whether Russia achieves its core requirements through war, or diplomacy:
The lands of 404 – Country Not Found, will become the world’s largest open-air graveyard.
The bits under Russian control will thrive, because they will effectively return home. The bits of Ukraine that were once Russian, were essentially handed over to the Ukrainian SSR by successive Soviet leaders for administrative purposes (and, in the case of Crimea, for rather less practical reasons than that). But they were Russian for centuries. The people there are ethnic Russians, they speak Russian at home and at work, and they share a common history and culture with Mother Russia.
The peaceful cession of those regions back to Russia, is the best-case outcome here. The worst case is that the Russians will be forced to occupy most, or even all, of former Ukraine.
But, no matter what happens, there will be almost certainly at least 2 MILLION dead Ukrainians and Russians before it is all done.
I repeat – there is absolutely no fire in Hell hot enough to burn the Western vampiric elites who created and forced this war.
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Hades may not have hell but he does have Tartarus, I am certain torments far worse than mere hellfire can be devised for the “elites” of the West (and their Jewish pimps) down there.