The losses are significant, even if advancing exact numbers is risky. After eight months of war, the Russian and Ukrainian armies count their dead in thousands. But they are careful not to assume the real numbers. Official balance sheets are less reliable. Russia has admitted about 6,000 victims. Ukraine mentioned about 9,000 soldiers killed this summer. A French military source, on the contrary, estimates the losses at 35,000 killed on the Ukrainian side and 43,000 on the Russian side.from open source data“. This summer, the Pentagon advanced another order of magnitude, from 70,000 to 80,000 Russian troops.killed or injured“. In particular, the ratio of wounded to killed is usually six to one. Whatever the numbers, the military health services must be in for a shock.
Western military doctors are closely following the Ukrainian conflict to learn from it. So far, responses from Ukrainian hospitals are rare…
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Source: Le Figaro
