Russia-Ukraine War

Both sides will exaggerate the opposite side's casualties and downplay their own. Any figures need to be taken with a grain of salt.

Russia does care far less about their disposable troops and take their cannon fodder from areas far from Moscow and St Petersburg to keep the middle classes in their comfort zone.

If it includes Wagner, mercenaries, conscripts from the 'annexed' regions it seems possible … we have seen how they've been used as cannon fodder.

There were figures posted earlier in the thread on hundreds of thousands of extra Russians appearing on disability welfare lists. The figure is for deaths and severely wounded.

I wonder what this new military agreement between Ukraine and Poland will mean in practice https://www.euronews.com/2024/07/08/poland-and-ukraine-sign-unprecedented-military-agreement

"Kyiv has committed to exploring new ways of shooting down all Russian missiles and drones in Ukrainian airspace that are headed in the direction of Poland together with Warsaw,"

I wonder how they define "heading in the direction of Poland". Can Polish forces only shoot them down within a certain distance of the Polish border, or can it be done in Eastern Ukraine even?

"I'm not saying target a whole city like UK did to Hamburg but we should do to the Russians what the UK did to Hamburg"

Fantastic logical argument there fella. PC-gone-mad rant thrown in for good measure. What are you, 14? School holidays?

Again, just to be clear… its not 728,000 killed, but includes wounded and captured. Is there any breakdown given? Who do they count as wounded - shrapnel wound? leg blown off? If a soldier is wounded on a few separate occasions over the past couple of years, is he a multi-casualty?

How many are Ukraine claiming as killed now, anyone know?

Ah come on now. Don't be implying that anybody not seen on TV loudly condemning this is somehow condoning it.

The Irish position on Russian brutality is pretty clear and consistent, and similar among all the main parties.

The only ones who would even consider condoning the strike on the children's hospital would be possible extremists like Daly or Wallace, but who cares what they think. Are they even elected representatives anymore ? And I doubt even they would condone this.

For context, the Soviet Union 'only' suffered about 10m killed and 14m injured in the entirety of WW2.

Even 1/25 of the losses seems inconceivable given that a) they are fighting just one opponent on the battlefield, b) that opponent has effectively no air force and c) it's only half the time period of WW2.

d) Russia is a fraction the size of the Soviet Union.

Military casualties are in that range I think, which would be the point of comparison with the figures released.

[LOL]"categorically"[/LOL]

ABSOLUTLY unbelievable and Totally incomphresible. The Irish and other governments of a like mind shouldDOSOMETHING re reorganising their RU embassies / reducing embassy staff or whatever. One idea would be for a number of countries to ‘club together’ and amalgamate their RU embassies into one . There must be a massive reduction in services/trade with a lot of these countries and Russia . Things can be reverted back to normal when are behaves itself- whenever and if ever that will be

I agree.

There is absolutely no need for an embassy in Ireland. A single embassy for all of the EU in some dreary ex-Eastern Bloc village would be more than sufficient. There is no need to "stay in contact" in order to keep an eye on them because you can take it for granted that Vatniks will only ever be up to no good. That's all they're good for and that's all they have to offer humanity.

I'd also to know more about these notional "Irish citizens" that you hear of still being in Russia; how many of them are KGB goons who were handed a passport after living here for five years or how many of them are useful idiots like that Chay Bowes individual?

Roust them all out, I say!

A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism

''In response to the arrest warrant, she
posted on X: "When you write about this, please do not forget to write
the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal.

"His
place is in prison, and not somewhere in The Hague, in a cosy cell with
a TV, but in Russia - in the same colony and the same
two-by-three-metre cell in which he killed Alexei."

Murderers who killed children in hospital "are the dregs of humanity" Russian ambassador to Chechia summoned and told to deliver that message to Moscow.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/09/ukraine-war-live-kyiv-nato-vladimir-putin-voldymyr-zelenskiy-latest-news