#russia ukraine casualties

[dontforgetukraine]

At least 184 civilians were killed and 856 injured in Ukraine in August, - UN This is the second-highest number of civilian casualties in 2024, after July. Almost all the victims of the war died from missile, bomb and artillery strikes by the Russians.

Civilian casualties August 2024

Total civillian casualties: 1, 040

184 killed (174 in Ukraine controlled territory; 10 in occupied territory // 107 men ; 69 women ; 4 boys ; 4 girls // 182 died due to explosive weapons with wide area effects ; 2 died due to mines and UXO remnants)

856 Injured (772 in Ukraine controlled territory; 84 in occupied // 434 men ; 371 women ; 32 boys ; 19 girls // 842 injured due to explosive weapons with wide are effects ; 14 injured due to mines and UXO remnants)

Source: The Ukrainian Review

[tomorrowusa]

Russia doesn't exactly have a free press. So the extent of Russian losses in its illegal invasion of Ukraine is not yet fully grasped by the public there. But occasionally they get bits of the truth from friends and relatives who are Putin's cannon fodder at the front.

Anton Andreev, a Russian soldier from the fifth company of the 1009th regiment, painted a bleak picture of Russia’s offensive in the Ukrainian northern region of Kharkiv. His unit had been decimated, he said, with only 12 out of 100 soldiers still alive as they came under constant Ukrainian fire and drones in Vovchansk, a prime target of Russia’s advances. “They just chop us up. We are sent under machine guns, under drones in daylight, like meat. And commanders just shout ‘forward and forward’,” Andreev said in a video message.

An 88% fatality rate can't be good. We hear a lot about the stalled Russian offensive in the east of Ukraine but not as much about the enormous price they're paying for these small advances.

In the first week of the offensive, Russian troops seized about 99 sq miles of Ukrainian territory – some of its biggest gains in 18 months – raising serious questions about Kyiv’s ability to defend itself. But Ukraine has been largely able to stabilise the front, alleviating immediate fears in the west that Moscow might be able to encircle Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second biggest city. “I don’t know if I will get out of this or not, but I need to say this to honour the memory of those who died like meat here because of certain individuals,” Andreev said in the clip, which was first published by the Russian outlet Astra and verified by the Guardian.

It's only through rare and blunt snippets on social media that Russians get a hint of the true human cost of the war.

Russian conscripts get only a week or two of training before being sent to Ukraine; they are obviously intended as dispensable cannon fodder. By comparison, US military personnel get two months of basic training and usually some specialized training thereafter. This is the "mighty" Russian Army which Western tankies and far right Putin apologists tell us that we should greatly fear.

Russia may be big but it is also pathetic.

Putin just conducted a purge of the Defense Ministry and gave a top job to a cousin. Nepotism is a proven way to win a war! /sarcasm

Putin extends defence ministry purge, hands job to a relative

And Putin is now in North Korea, a satellite state which pretty much enslaves its starving population, so that he can pick up weaponry that Russia can't produce on his own.

Vladimir Putin to visit North Korea as he seeks further military support

[taiwantalk]

I meant demoralizing to russians

[radioactive-cloud]

those past few days are really testing my patience with some of the takes and opinions i've seen on the internet and i'm so fucking done with all of this i just want to delete all my accounts from everywhere and live somewhere in the woods (as far away from russia as i can) and to never come in contact with another human being again

[alcestas-sloboda]

Rivne | 22.10.2022

[justacynicalromantic]

The rescue works in #Dnipro have been going on for 70 hours already.

A grandpa is talking about his 1 year old grandson that died in the attack. The baby's mother was dug up alive and hospitalized 2 days ago. The father's body is still somewhere inside the wreckage

The body count is 44 already (among them 5 kids). Hospitalized - 79 people (among them 16 kids. Over 20 people are still missing.

A body of a pregnant woman was recovered. The father tried to cover them with his body.

Everyone remembers the guy that used his phone's flashlight to indicate he was there and needed rescue? Turns out with his other hand he was keeping pressure on his wife's neck artery.

Olha was a refugee from Donetsk city in 2014. She ran from Russian invasion to Kherson city and built a new life there. She had to run again in 2022. One month before this strike, her husband moved all valuable and memorable items from their flat in Kherson to this flat in Dnipro city. She lost a lot of blood, they had to pump 5 litres of blood into her.

This was a flat of a boxing trainer Mikhailo Korenovskyi. His girls girls survived:

There's a video of celebrating his daughter's birthday on his Instagram just weeks before tragedy right in this kitchen. I took a ss from it because Tumblr doesn't let me post 2 vids per post

(bruh I have an identical green cup🥺💔)

[thisisabernieblog]

[bennettmarko]

[jeintalu]

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN UKRAINE AND GAZA

The United Nations reports that more than 10,000 civilians have been killed in the Russian/Ukrainian war, which has lasted almost two years.

Many of the deaths have occurred in the last three months since Russia deployed cluster munitions in response to the US cluster munitions sent to Ukraine.

However, the Israeli bombardment of the walled Gaza Strip has killed over 10,000 civilians in just one month.

[xtruss]

The US Sent Cluster Munitions to Ukraine But Activists Still Seek to Bolster a Treaty Banning Them

Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for it after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against ...

— By Jamey Keaten | September 5, 2023

Police officers look at collected fragments of the Russian rockets, including cluster rounds, that hit Kharkiv, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 3, 2022. Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for it after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia. Advocacy groups in the Cluster Munitions Coalition released their latest annual report on Tuesday Sept. 5, 2023. AP Photo/Libkos . The Associated Press

Geneva, Switzerland — Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for the deal after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

Advocacy groups in the Cluster Munitions Coalition released their latest annual report on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting next week of envoys from the 112 countries that have acceded to or ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The treaty prohibits the explosives and calls for clearing areas where they litter the ground because they harm and kill many more civilians than combatants,

A further 12 countries have signed the convention. The United States and Russia are not among them.

Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch, who has long championed the 15-year-old convention, says the coalition was “extremely concerned” about the U.S. move in July, after an intense debate among U.S. leaders, to transfer unspecified thousands of 155mm artillery-delivered cluster munition rounds to Ukraine.

More than 20 government leaders and officials have criticized that decision, the coalition says.

Hoping to avoid defections from the convention, Wareham says supporters hope signatories will “stay strong — that they do not weaken their position on the treaty as a result of the U.S. decision. And we don’t see that happening yet. But it’s always a danger.”

U.S. officials argue that the munitions — a type of bomb that opens in the air and releases smaller “bomblets” across a wide area — could help Kyiv bolster its offensive and push through Russian front lines.

Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP Via Getty Images

U.S. leaders have said the transfer involves a version of the munition that has a reduced “dud rate,” meaning fewer of the smaller bomblets fail to explode. The bomblets can take out tanks and equipment, as well as troops, hitting multiple targets at the same time.

But Wareham cited “widespread evidence of civilian harm that (is) caused by these weapons. It was just an unconscionable decision.”

The report says civilians accounted for 95% of cluster munition casualties that were recorded last year, totaling some 1,172 in eight countries: Azerbaijan, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Myanmar, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen. The monitor noted efforts in places like Bulgaria, Peru and Slovakia to destroy their stockpiles of the munitions in 2022 and earlier this year.

Children made up 71% of casualties from explosions of cluster-munition remnants last year, the report said.

It said Russia had “repeatedly” used cluster munitions in Ukraine since President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade Ukraine in February last year, while Ukraine had used them “to a lesser extent.”

Washington’s decision “is certainly a setback,” said Wareham, “but it’s not the end of the road for the Convention on Cluster Munitions by far.”

[peoples-media]

Ukraine Strikes Back: Significant Territorial Gains Made in Ongoing Conflict with Russia

In a significant turn of events, Ukraine has announced the recapture of approximately 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) of its territory during the 68th week of Russia’s invasion. This progress marks a crucial milestone in Ukraine’s long-planned counterattack, which is now gaining momentum and posing a challenge to the Russian forces. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed…

[tomorrowusa]

From @nexta_tv

Putin was so desperate that he allowed his chef, troll coordinator, and mercenary organizer Yevgeny Prigozhin to recruit criminals from Russian prisons to fight in Ukraine. An 80% casualty/desertion rate is not something that can be viewed as a success.

[taiwantalk]

https://x.com/ArmedMaidan/status/1704187669880750095?s=20

i think the figures are believable. there's more in the tweet. so check it out yourself.

[reportwire]

Official says over 10,000 Ukrainian troops killed in war

Official says over 10,000 Ukrainian troops killed in war

KYIV, Ukraine — A top adviser to Ukraine’s president has cited military chiefs as saying 10,000 to 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the country’s nine-month struggle against Russia’s invasion, a rare comment on such figures and far below estimates of Ukrainian casualties from Western leaders. Russian forces kept up rocket attacks on infrastructure and airstrikes against Ukrainian…

[justacynicalromantic]

⚠️⚠️⚠️SENSITIVE CONTENT❗️❗️❗️

Today, the international terrorist organization known as "Russia" carried out a missile strike on multiple civilian targets in Kherson.

A public railway station, a mall, a gas station were hit. Total civilians loss count is 19 people. Many received injuries.

[ronaromero]

100,000 Ukrainians Killed in Battle

100,000 Ukrainians Killed in Battle

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the deaths of more than 100,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed since the outbreak in hostilities. She deleted the video and later posted that she included injured as a part of the statistics, but Poland could not confirm the numbers because the media is restricted from reporting on this information, which is considered…