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[–] D61@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The 7:1 K/D ratio is from...

"The losses of Russians around Avdiivka are colossal. My colleagues and I did the calculations and pulled up our archival records from the beginning of the year," said Dmitry Likhovy, Ukrainian military spokesman.

emphasis mine

~https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-lost-thousands-of-personnel-and-400-tanks-in-avdiivka-2024

Ukrainian forces pulled out, they haven't counted bodies, this is a pretty wild number. I wonder what time frame they're using for their "calculations" and just how much of the fighting in areas around Avdiivka were being included in the numbers?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ukraine just making up numbers is a well known phenomenon at this point, what's amusing here is that western media keeps taking them at face value.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago