>The estimate aligns with a recent study by the US-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which puts Russian military deaths at up to 250,000 and total casualties, including the wounded, at over 950,000. Ukraine has suffered very high losses as well, with between 60,000 and 100,000 personnel killed and total casualties reaching approximately 400,000.
I searched for the CSIS study to see what their methodology was and found a video
* Nothing. Nada. Literally zero evidence of any kind combined with literally zero analysis.
* An assertion that this number "proves" that it's not true that "Russia holds all the cards". They appear to want to rebut Trump's opinion.
* The final comment was about the military assistance bill and how important it was that it be passed.
There was also some random facts that look like they might support the original claim but which emphatically do not (e.g. amount of land taken).
The average Russian would of course also be equally inclined to believe their military industrial complex's PR lobby group when it makes unsourced claims like this. That's coz the average Russian is not too smart.
It has pagefuls of references to claims about lost tanks (also dubious), land taken (probably accurate), comparison of losses to historical wars etc. which are the random facts I was referring to.
Nothing about how the American military industrial complex's lobby and this war's biggest profiteer by far pulled that impressive 1 million number from tho.
Dont worry those weapons did tons of good though. Super successful. As your article points out - it's imperative you keep buying.
I searched for the CSIS study to see what their methodology was and found a video
https://www.csis.org/analysis/evening-one-million-russian-ca...
...which explained:
* Nothing. Nada. Literally zero evidence of any kind combined with literally zero analysis.
* An assertion that this number "proves" that it's not true that "Russia holds all the cards". They appear to want to rebut Trump's opinion.
* The final comment was about the military assistance bill and how important it was that it be passed.
There was also some random facts that look like they might support the original claim but which emphatically do not (e.g. amount of land taken).
The average Russian would of course also be equally inclined to believe their military industrial complex's PR lobby group when it makes unsourced claims like this. That's coz the average Russian is not too smart.