10,000 War Dead? | Talking Points Memo

This is hard to make sense of. But let me give you a brief update. A short time ago the Russian paper Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article which cited official Russian military numbers of killed in action in Ukraine as 9,861. That is a mind-blowing number. In one mont Russia would have lost 2/3rds of the soldiers it lost in a decade in Afghanistan. But then a very short time later the article was pulled and replaced by a 404 error. Then it was reposted without the numbers.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1409648

Many people are saying Putin couldn’t handle organizing a two car funeral procession, much less an invasion of a neighboring country.

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He’ll need to get better at the funerals.

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