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More Russian FUBAR stuff: US estimates 100k Russian dead and wounded since December [1]

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Date: 2023-05-01

The carnage in this war should come as no surprise to anyone, but these numbers are still shocking.

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday estimated that Russia's military has suffered 100,000 casualties in the last five months in fighting against Ukraine in the Bakhmut region. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters the figure, based on U.S. intelligence estimates, included more than 20,000 dead, half of them from the Wagner mercenary group, which includes convicts released from prison to join the fighting.

There is some confusion about those numbers, however. It seems those numbers include the entire front, not just Bakhmut. But it is safe to say the majority of those casualties will have come from the Bakhmut area..

x The 4:1 WIA:KIA ratio was a good indication that the original figure was not specifically for Bakhmut. Most Wagner casualties in Bakhmut are convicts, and, given how they are employed and their lower medevac priority, they are less likely to survive wounds than Russian soldiers. https://t.co/3MjN7PesS8 — Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 1, 2023

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The Road to Bakhmut.

x New TikTok clip from the Bakhmut front...



90% sure this was filmed by someone driving east along the T0504 highway in #Ivanivske. The burning skyline of Bakhmut on the horizion is apocalyptic. Burnt vehicles everywhere. pic.twitter.com/uqynjWd5Ub — The Intel Crab (@IntelCrab) May 1, 2023

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Unfortunately, 34 “musicians” survived.

x The Wagner Group released another set of dire statistics



120m advanced on Bakhmut and 86 fatalities



Yevgeny Prigozhin is blaming "shell hunger" once again for Wagner's failures — Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) May 1, 2023

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Rest in Peace Harris.

x American volunteer Cooper Andrews "Harris" died in the battles for Bakhmut.



The death of the former marine of the US Army was reported by journalist Jake Hanrahan, who emphasized that neither he nor his acquaintances knew about Andrews' participation in the defense of… pic.twitter.com/sVGNCm9380 — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) May 1, 2023

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Burning in hell sounds like a good solution to me.

x Ukrainian Air Force started using American-supplied Zuni rockets to support ground forces, photos show



The messages on rockets wish Russians to burn in hell for killing children in Ukraine's Uman during a 28 April missile strike. https://t.co/LfSurDbtyr pic.twitter.com/se6FKofJJi — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) May 1, 2023

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Video of close combat in a trench.

x Video from Ukraine's Terra unit of soldiers from Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade assaulting a trench near the road to Bakhmut (other footage was posted last week). They use UAVs to drop VOG grenades on Wagner fighters in support of the advancing soldiers.https://t.co/WhGdnmeEVF pic.twitter.com/HSFMgWqvS1 — Rob Lee (@RALee85) April 30, 2023

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Prisoner recruitment continues, but most of those new “soldiers” end up as cannon fodder.

x 2/ According to Olga Romanova, the head of the 'Russia Behind Bars' human rights group – which campaigns for prisoners' rights – convicts are still being recruited on a huge scale to fight, despite the Wagner Group no longer being allowed to recruit from Russian jails. — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) May 1, 2023

x 4/ Hundreds of people are said to have been taken simultaneously from prison colonies across Russia – a total of about 10,000 people just in the month of April. The convicts are required to sign a document agreeing not to disclose any information about their recruitment. — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) May 1, 2023

Apparently Wagner is doing a poor job of shooting “soldiers” who try to surrender. There is even a financial incentive, as well as a stay-alive incentive, for prisoner recruits to wave the white flag.

x 6/ Of these, 77% were listed as combat and non-combat casualties (i.e. including escaped and surrendered prisoners). Those captured by Ukraine are recorded as killed and compensation is paid to their wives. "Prigozhin is afraid of the surrender statistics," says Romanova. — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) May 1, 2023

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Looks sort of like a lawnmower. Maybe it mulches Russian tanks.

x Testing at Ukrainian weapons range of a ground-based kamikazde drone (UGV), the warhead of which consists of two TM-62 anti-tank mines.https://t.co/SfX30esWfc pic.twitter.com/U2ZLtwjRu5 — OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇦 (@UKikaski) May 1, 2023

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I want one of these.

x Ukrainian defenders use Valve Steam Deck to control the automatic large-caliber machine gun turret "Shablia". pic.twitter.com/xMCU469Glc — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 1, 2023

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Russia’s time is up. The Swiss take over.

x Switzerland has Assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of May beginning today. — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 1, 2023

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Oh, I don’t know. Looks pretty useful to me.

x Russian propagandist addresses partisans: your actions are pointless and useless (it's better to give up already).



He recorded this message with a burning train in the background that was derailed.



A great demonstration of uselessness and pointlessness. pic.twitter.com/RXcnZBtN4o — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 1, 2023

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Was this before or after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

x Russian actress, laureate of the State Prize of Russia, war supporter of war Olga Budina believes "God is running Russia" and that "America and England fought on the side of Germany" in WWII. pic.twitter.com/xr7e9jnwRs — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 1, 2023

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Another Russian T-90 is harvested for scrap metal.

x Russians lost another one of their T-90M tanks, showing two common weaknesses.



First, you see the tank turning around and exposing his weak rear due his slow reverse speed.



Secondly, the absolute Russian incompetence to not only show this rear but also to drive in a straight… pic.twitter.com/9kSCB69E4D — (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) May 1, 2023

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But other than that, how else are you doing?

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