Ukraine War Casualties Past 2 Million

Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Russia has suffered as many as 450,000 deaths and 1.4 million total casualties since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

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Ten years of fighting the CIA-armed Mujahadeen in Afghanistan -- guerrillas who eventually evolved into al-Qaida -- cost the Soviet Army 14,453 KIA; 53,753 WIA; 312 MIA and an estimated $50bn.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-08 05:18 AM | Reply

Putin's Russia is the closest analogue to Trump's United States.

Where Putin Goes One, We Go All.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-08 08:10 AM | Reply

That's about 1% of Russia's total population. Imagine if the US was invaded another country only to sustained 3.5 million casualties with more than 1 million (mostly men in the prime of their lives) dead.

That is what Putin has delivered to Russia.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-07-08 10:27 AM | Reply

To put it another way, imagine if the primary demographic for covid hospitalizations/deaths had been men under the age of 40.

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-07-08 10:35 AM | Reply

Putin is a mass murderer, in exactly the same vein as the mass murderer who was executed for his crimes, Ted Bundy. Putin has murdered many of his neighbors and should be seen as a deranged criminal.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-07-09 07:32 AM | Reply

That is what Putin has delivered to Russia.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce

With much of them being nothing more than fodder sent to the lines poorly trained and poorly equipped only to have them unalived in a cloud of pink attack drone mist.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-09 09:21 AM | Reply

This is what wars of attrition are like.

#7 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-07-09 09:24 AM | Reply

who was the poster who was always gloating about how this war wasn't impacting russia negatively and ukraine was full of nazis?

i forget the username but he was an annoying moron.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-07-09 03:30 PM | Reply