Ukraine War: 1.4 Million Russian Dead

Another few months passed, another grisly Russian casualty milestone passed in Ukraine. The Update from Ukraine As the few stubborn readers of this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR) know, we express … strong opinions about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which opinions we have been shouting into the Internet void for some time now. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] The short version: we disapprove… quantitatively, as is our custom. We’ve quantitatively modeled the casualty rates (and, at least initially all the other Russian losses). Lately, we’ve been updating every 100,000 (!) Russian deaths. As you can see below, Russia has passed another grim milestone of human sacrifice of their own citizens: 1.4 million dead, in combat operations in Ukraine alone. We’ve previously defended our use of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence as a data source, as previously defended in previous posts. Suffice to say: they seem reasonable by…