Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffins of Andriy Vertiev and Serhiy Evtushenko, Ukrainian servicemen, killed during the fighting, at Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. (AFP)
The Guardian: Ukraine’s high casualty rate could bring war to tipping point
Analysis: Kyiv’s fighting strength is stretched, yet Russia could now benefit from a pause in fighting
Any way you count it, the figures are stark: Ukrainian casualties are running at a rate of somewhere between 6oo and 1,000 a day. One presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych, told the Guardian this week it was 150 killed and 800 wounded daily; another, Mykhaylo Podolyak, told the BBC that 100 to 200 Ukrainian troops a day were being killed.
It represents an extraordinary loss of human life and capacity for the defenders, embroiled in a defence of the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk that this week turned into a losing battle. Yet the city was also arguably a place that Ukraine could have retreated from to the more defensible Lysychansk, across the Siverski Donets River, the sort of defensive situation that Ukraine has fared far better in.
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WNU Editor: Ukrainian officials are saying that Russian artillery/missile strikes account for 90% of their military casualties.
Update: Here is a grim "on the ground report" in Ukraine .... ‘They’re Wiping Us From Earth’: Evading Russian Artillery With a Ukrainian Military Unit (Rolling Stone).
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