I am honored to have Denys Davydov as one of our readers. He is literally "Our Man In Ukraine." He gives reports on what is going on one or two times a day.
His latest report was full of good news, shocking and verified statistics, and a sad report on electric power plants in a contested part of Ukraine destroyed leaving thousands of people without electric power. Here is the link for those who are really curious:
The good news is that Ukrainian forces are now in possession of Kharkiv and the area around it. Russian soldiers are literally running for their lives. Denys went into great depth supplying Russian support documentation to confirm that in the first 6 months of the war, Russian armed forces had 70,000 military personnel killed. If we use the ratio of three casualties for every fatality, we have 210,000 wounded. Please bear in mind that wounded Russian soldiers do not get the same quality of medical care that US military personnel get. Try to imagine all the young men and women permanently disabled.
Let us compare these awful statistics to those of recent US wars. The US was fighting in Vietnam from 1960 to 1975. In that 15 years, some 58,000 men and women were killed. US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan (20 Years of war) resulted in roughly 7,000 US military personnel killed. The Soviet Union's 10-year war in Afghanistan resulted in 18,000 Soviet troops killed. China's 1979 90-day war in Vietnam resulted in 15,000 PLA troops killed. The Chinese government publicly announced that they could not continue to sustain such losses and withdrew.
Denys shared a report of the viciousness and vindictiveness of Russian military personnel sustaining the defeat in Kharkiv. Russian Navy ships far out in the Caspian Sea launched rocket attacks. These attacks destroyed electricity-generating plants in the Kharkiv area. Ukrainian armed forces use electric generators and are not affected by such an attack. The civilian population is now facing a winter with no electricity and no water because electricity is needed to power water pumps.
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