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Board Economics
Re: The impact of war on global economy.
by
Ozero
on 06/06/2024, 14:15:49 UTC

But their losses increased sharply. In May, the irretrievable losses of Russians in Ukraine amount to about 38,000 soldiers (511,130 in total), 416 tanks, 868 armored vehicles, 9 aircraft, 1,116 artillery systems and other weapons. The Russians had armored vehicles left for at most another year of war, and even then, mostly equipment from the Second World War remained. In Russia, approximately 30 thousand people a month are drafted into war, and approximately the same amount is disposed of in Ukraine. Well, let's see how many more of them will agree to die for the imperial ambitions of the distraught old man Putin.
The total number of Russian Ground Forces is only 550,000 men.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ground_Forces
So, if we try to take your BS seriously Ukraine has destroyed the Russian army completely. Which is of course laughable and simply not true.  Grin

Apparently, the figures given in Wikipedia about the number of Russian Ground Forces are very outdated.

According to Russian sources, the Russian army in 2022 had the following number of military personnel:
- ground forces numbered about 800,000 people;
— approximately 100 thousand served in the aerospace forces;
- the fleet included about 150 thousand, that is, these three types of troops alone amounted to about 1,050,000 people.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces also include the Strategic Missile Forces, Airborne Forces, and Special Operations Forces, which may also well take part in the war against Ukraine. The Russian National Guard and various PMCs are also fighting on the Ukrainian fronts. I have not yet found in open sources what the current number of ground forces in the Russian Federation is.

On September 25, 2022, a decree was signed to increase the number of military personnel to 2,039,758 “due to the tense geopolitical situation.”
https://pamyatpokoleniy.ru/news/tpost/4toaxkmhs1-chislennost-armii-rossii-na-2022

The commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Lieutenant General Pavlyuk, stated that as of May 3, about 510-515 thousand Russian military personnel were stationed in Ukraine.

Putin said in December 2023 that there were 617,000 Russian military personnel in the “combat zone”—probably referring to all Russian military personnel deployed in the so-called zone. “special military operation” in the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, including the areas where Russian troops are based in border areas on Russian territory.
https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/skolko-rossiyskih-voysk-v-ukraine-i-na-granice-rf-i-o-chem-svidetelstvuyut-eti-dannye-novosti-ukrainy-50424861.html