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Last week they lost 15000 soldiers in a week, according to the Russian MoD weekly report.
There was another social media post by another Ukrainian commander (regular army, I think their formation is defending Novovasilevka?) that says that the newest recruits are being blindfolded when transported to the front. The most recent mobilization has been so forceful, that even the Ukrainian government expects their new recruits to surrender immediately and give up information to the Russians.
But those kinds of posts are of course ignored.
I first thought I heard it was 2000 a day, then I thought that can't be right, must be 200... nope, it is. I guess that speaks to how unhinged things are when even I have trouble believing the amount of death that's happening. I doubt the current conscription rates are even close to that.
Ukrainians have announced recently that they are mobilizing 5000 a day, but that's probably just PR. Even if true, the quality of this troops is most likely shit, due to age, health issues, unwillingness to fight and extremely short training.