THERE IS AN INTERESTING UPDATE ON THE #CASUALTY COUNT IN THE WAR IN #UKRAINE.

Ivan Katchanovski translated bits from a Russian language BBC report:

"Based on open sources, the BBC managed to establish the names of 14,709 #Russian soldiers who died in the war in Ukraine.

Throughout 2022, Russian sources typically reported about 250-300 dead each week.

In January, these figures doubled."

"But in just two weeks in February, the BBC Russian Service, together with Mediazona (recognized as a "foreign agent" in Russia) and a team of volunteers, managed to confirm the names of 1,679 dead, which is five times more than the usual weekly numbers."

The war started in the eighth week of 2022. There were thus 44 weeks in the rest of the year.

With 300 dead per week the number of Russians killed until the end of 2022 was 13,200. (These numbers likely included the number of #Wagner mercenaries killed but probably not those of the Donbas militia.)

The BBC then counts 2,400 killed in January and 1,700 in February.

The total is thus below 20,000 which is simikar to the numbers estimated by Col. MacGregor and others for casualties of the Russian side.

The BBC says it estimates that it only catches half of the dead, but gives no sound reason why that would be the case.

The daily losses on the Ukrainian side are much higher.

The daily clobber list of the Russian Ministry of Defense mentions about 400 Ukrainians killed every day.

This is consistent with the numbers Ukraine's government mentioned last summer and fall.

Over the 358 days of the war the total of Ukrainians killed sums up to about 143,000.

The Russian #MOD reports do not include the number of those who got killed by the #Wagner mercenaries in the #Bakhmut area.

That number is by likely well above 20,000.

RUSSIAN AIR POWER “MYSTERY” EXPLAINED

Over the months many readers have asked:

"Why has Russian air power played only a limited role in this conflict?"

Clearly, Russian manned aircraft have been largely limited to frontline “fire support” roles. 

They have seldom penetrated deeper to attack enemy convoys, trains, railheads, field headquarters, etc. 

(And when they have, it has often not gone well.) 

Yes, R#ussia has #cruise #missiles, but these can only do so much. 

They are usually ineffective against moving targets, and are limited to around 500kg of explosive payload, while one #SU24 attack jet can lift at least six 250kg bomb, multiple times per day and pursue moving targets, such as convoys and trains.

This surely is not what people expected of a modern war.

Not after watching the USA bomb various Arabs and Afghans, since 1991. 

Of course, those slobs did not inherit a huge, multi-layered air defense capability from the #USSR.

It seems even more strange when you consider that, in numerical terms #Ukrainian air defense is only a fraction of what it was at the beginning.

The answer to this “mystery" is that since the initial pummeling the remaining Ukrainian systems have been, are being hugely “force multiplied" by foreign powers. 

(For all you civilians: Welcome to the “force multiplier” concept. )

Probably by way of communicating with #Starlink terminals at regional air defense HQ’s, the #US and #UK provide real-time data on the launch and subsequent trajectory of Russian aircraft (as well as cruise missiles) thus, allowing the Ukraine to keep its radars off—”invisible”—over 95 percent of the time. 

Then, its air defense batteries can turn on their radars for acquisition and targeting purposes once Russian aircraft or missiles are almost on top of them (relatively speaking.) 

You see, active radars are the “giveaway” to locating and destroying enemy air defenses.

Russia flies electronic warfare aircraft inside its old borders and over #Belarus, to detect enemy radar activity.

During the occasional cruise missile swarm it can sometimes (only sometimes) detect such activity and destroy a few air defense targets. 

Otherwise the U.S./UK assistance has largely blocked this avenue.

Just another form of Ukraine assistance that the war-whore, state agent MSM never told you about, because it hasn’t been “cleared” to do so. ..... MORE

It is extremely concerning that the Irish Police Service, an Garda Síochána operating under commissioner Drew Harris, is actively suppressing the truth about foreign national crimes, attacks, sexual assaults in our country. @gardarep @GardaTraffic @gardainfo @garda

The family of a woman who says she endured a terrifying sexual assault in Dungarvan late Saturday night, say they are angry and upset that Gardai asked them to take down a social media post informing other women that foreign nationals had been involved.


#gript

https://gript.ie/family-of-sexual-assault-victim-told-to-remove-foreign-nationals-post/

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