Democracy’s Fiery Ordeal: The War in Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Coffeesforclosers]

2 hours ago, sherpa said:

 

I'm guessing the "RuAF" is Air Force?

Total casualties have been estimated at near one million total, and a few hundred thousand of those are dead, as of late June.

 

Russian Armed Forces. There's a part of the OSINT world that likes RuAF vs. UAF. The same dudes refer to the Russian Air Force by its Cyrillic acronym, VKS, sorta snobby but I get it.

 

Those total losses from February 2022 to June 2025 seem very plausible.

 

2 hours ago, sherpa said:

Kind of ugly for what Putin called a "partial mobilization."

 

Right? Looks like the chief advantage provided by mass in the Ukraine war isn't overwhelming local superiority, but operational tempo. 

 

So long as you don't mind making the grave diggers rich...but is there a more Russian way of war than that?

Edited yesterday at 04:21 PM by Coffeesforclosers

[Coffeesforclosers]

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/ukraines-f-16-force-innovation-impact-and-resolve-in-the-face-of-aggression/

 

Foreign supplied F-16s are flying about 80% of Ukraine's sorties at this point.  They also claim that no Ukrainian air base or airfield has been put out of action since the war started. Which is believable because by any reasonable expectation, the Ukrainian Air Force should have been annihilated a long, long time ago.