- cross-posted to:
- ukraine_war_news
- cross-posted to:
- ukraine_war_news
Top Ukrainian security officials are refuting U.S. estimates of how many Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the war. Last week, the U.S. chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, said around 100,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed or injured.
Ukrainian officials are now saying that figure is “not entirely true.”
Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s secretary of National Security and Defense Council, said the casualty figures are “definitely not those.”
-ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge
I get why the fog of war is there, but its frustrating to not have good info on how things are going.
Just remember as a rule of thumb, if Ukraine says something, its probably bullshit.
My rule of thumb is that everything they say about Russia is projection and actually applies to Ukraine and/or the West.
Even if, as a centrist skeptic I saw said, we “triangulate” the truth by meeting somewhere in between the two narratives, and then extrapolate from there knowing how much the West and capitalists/fascists in general lie…yeah we basically arrive at the same conclusions.
The genocide comes to mind. A Donbas resident could literally get on TV and say exactly what’s happening and they’d get called a liar or a Russian plant.