Why Is Ukraine Now 'Lowballing' Its Casualty Rates?

Rescuers work at the site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Vitalii Hnidyi  

Moon Of Alabama: Ukraine Previously Cited High Casualty Rates - It Is Now Lowballing Those Numbers 

In June several Ukrainian officials admitted that their army had some 700 or even more casualties per day. The numbers were played up to gain access to more 'western' weapons. 

Since then Ukrainian officials have stated much lower totals of killed and wounded than make sense. 

The lowball casualty numbers now are probably convenient to increase moral in Ukraine and to hide from its supporters the inevitable defeat that the Ukrainian army will experience. 

This report must be seen in that light. 

Russia Hits Train Station in Deadly Attack on Ukraine’s Independence Day - New York Times  

A Russian missile hit a train station in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 22 people, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, in an attack that came as Ukraine celebrated its Independence Day and brought home the harsh reality of the six-month-old war. 

The attack, which took place in an area about 74 miles east of the city of Dnipro in Ukraine-controlled territory, was one of the deadliest strikes on the country’s railways since April, when more than 50 people were killed when a rocket slammed into a crowded railway platform in eastern Ukraine.  

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WNU Editor: The Ukraine government may now be low-balling its casualty rates, but everyone I know in Ukraine do not believe these reported low numbers.