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Russian Pro-war Telegram channels claim lifespan of Russian troops on front line is 20-35 minutes.
Lifespan from training to deployment...10 days to almost a month if you're lucky.
Death by drone before they even get to front line.
Western intel reports Russian troop deaths..30k a month.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79204
Resistance1000
Hmmm. That long? I figured half that.
LogicDude
Those are Rookie numbers. Let's see if we can't get it down to 5-10 minutes!
WaxedApple
Russia also possesses an earthquake machine according to the same bloggers, and hell, I believe them
duktayp
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyNDI5aWFqaXZ2MGQ5OHpuM254djVuNW5ob3Zqa3Zlamd2cW42eXZucyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/G6BdijdpMDeYPKVnGL/giphy.gif
FortifiedWhine
Eastern Ukraine must just about become the new Ypres, they'll still be finding drone shrapnel 100 years later.
barbarian818
They'll be finding shit loads of glass fibre as well. To combat countermeasures, the Ukraines are using optical wire guidance systems. I've seen pics of trees festooned with more glitter in the form of single use fibres than Mylar icicles on a Christmas Tree. Shrapnel rusts, even most plastics degrade and decay. But most glass things can survive *millennia* in the ground.
HolyFreakingToast
finish off the kerch bridge first.
30k a month 360,000 a year. yes, there will be a mobilization. unless more foreigners can be duped. of 16K NK troops sent to ukraine only 10K remain. but NK sending more.
RElGNMAN
heckruler
. . . could someone explain to me why Russia isn't using drones to the same great victory? They're not technologically difficult to produce and use. There's no magic sauce. The premier weapon of the 21st century is... a toy with a brick of C4 attached. How did Ukraine capitalize on this so much better than Russia?
CraftyGiant
Yep sure. Russia is using the battlefront to ethnically cleanse the less white russians out of eastern russia.
slidewhistlesymphony
Slava Ukraini! Fuck Putin's Russia!
SwissScars
WWI fighter pilots, the "20 Minute Club".
Sorrontis
So much fertilizer for the sunflowers.
madmax17
A Russian soldier really works for the Ukrainian agriculture department.
bemibet
CraftyGiant
Russia is using ukraine to ethnically cleanse eastern russia, they are intentionally sending, how to put this... The least white russians to the front.
Clockworkdancerobot
Russians Introduced to Ukrainian Drone program very quickly.
GigantamaxHonker
should be less. They should die within first minute. russian orc deserve to die. whole country is fucking fucked up facist dictatorship, just like usa with trump, pootins best pal. I blame usa for stopping support to Ukraine. you fuckoland protects pedophiles but you dont support allies or good causes. This war would be over lot faster if you would not have voted pedophile to run usa. and you people living there are not doing enough to change things.
CraftyGiant
Go scream at truth social, or X...
Imgur users are trapped in the US.
minipancho94
Just remember these numbers when the fascist here in the west start their own crackdowns or try to draft us to protect the pedophiles. Frag your officers, you'll live longer.
quietwalker
Heh. Sweet.
lackinglife
This is literally satire numbers that are similar to Warhammer 40k and helldiver life expectancies for troops. That's where we are at now.
DdCno1
The numbers from those franchises are directly inspired by Soviet and Chinese figures from WW2 and the Korean war (as well as aspects of WW1). It's not surprising that Russia is devolving back to this.
Daliena06
Back in the Starcraft days, the in-game story proudly boasted that adding combat medics had increased marine life expectancy in combat to "over nine seconds". I yearn for the day when that sort of life expectancy goes for anyone who willingly makes the choice to invade Ukraine.
Causeitsmadeofmeat
Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers
barbarian818
"killed or wounded in the rear" in this context often means brutalized by their own command structure.
madmax17
The "twenty minuters".
Zeeall
Meatgrinder. Classic Russian tactic. Good to see that its not working.
DragonThunderUndertaking
No you see this was the genius plan to feed his people all along, soylent green is making a comeback... er I mean is now a thing.
theovermynd
What's crazy is that in Warhammer 40k, the authors basically made the entire military strategy of the human empire Russian adjacent, just millions and billions of foot soldiers with cheap laser rifles backed up by armored tanks hurled into a meat grinder until the enemy choked on corpses. And, the authors wrote that a soldiers lifespan in this grim dark hellscape of a universe, an insane brutal number, worse than anything we could imagine... Was 15 hours average.
KleptoKea
I hope when Ukraine wins this war, its demonstrated ingenuity and supremacy with drones will help it toward prosperity. I'd like to imagine that just as things made in Germany are considered among the highest quality, that drones made/designed in Ukraine will be seen as a gold standard. Slava Ukraini. Fuck Russia. Fuck dictators. Fuck those who fund and enable them.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
Was about to say, this just feels like history repeating itself.
Gargwill
"THE ONE WITH THE RIFLE SHOOTS, THE ONE WITHOUT THE RIFLE FOLLOWS! WHEN THE ONE WITH THE RIFLE IS KILLED, THE ONE WHO IS FOLLOWING, PICKS UP THE RIFLE AND SHOOTS!"
MoschopsUK
I was working remotely back in 2022. Had a Russian feller on the team. One afternoon he simply said "I'm going out, might not be back for a while" and a few days later he logged on from a different country and apologised for having been out of touch. Said he only got through the airport because when the police turned him back, he went back to the ticket counter for a refund and rather than give him the refund, they walked him around to his gate. I bet it's a lot harder to get out now.
barbarian818
you can always count on Russian corruption. Tight controls just mean bigger bribes.
chansuke
Those bribes are probably pretty damn high. If they discover a recruiter is diverting potential troops away from joining the military that recruiter is liable to quickly find themselves on the front line armed with nothing but a shovel. There have been multiple reports of Russian commanders sending troops they don't like into assault squads on suicide missions.
BlindGardener
Whatever happened to that American influencer that joined the army? Is he dead yet?
fformulaa
No. Here you go! Enjoy:
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/american-family-moved-russia-seeking-better-life-got-drawn-war-ukraine-rcna220463
lackadaisycull
That’s from Nov 2025–anything more recent?
fformulaa
Sure thing
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn075j04pnyo
lackadaisycull
This is a different sucker. This talks about Leo Hare, who got swindled for a lot of money. Dude in question is Derek Huffman who got sent to Ukraine.
UnattendedDeviant
Ha..Russian mob scammed one the families.
BlindGardener
Damn. I hope Ukrane gets his ass.
kriswinters
"...significant financial incentives..."
Which I imagine are never collected.
RooGryphon
lies
Tobbsdasock
The size of the combat bonus is inversely proportional to your likelihood of surviving to collect it.
DdCno1
Commanders often force soldiers to hand over their money (including signup bonuses) in order to not get tortured, killed outright or sent on a meat wave assault. All of this has been extensively documented on camera, often by the perpetrators themselves.
CallMeCourierSix
Sad fact: rape is regularly used as a disciplinary tool in the Russian military. A man who screws up is gang raped by the rest of his squad/platoon. This has led to a freakishly high HIV infection rate among Russian soldiers, as many of them also use intravenous drugs.
https://www.reorientingsecurity.com/services-3-10