Russia's losses in Ukraine double those of Soviets in Afghanistan | Eastern NC Now

In four months of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost over twice as many soldiers killed as the Soviets did in ten years in Afghanistan.  Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine stand at 30,350 compared to almost 15,000 killed in Afghanistan.  Russia has also lost thousands of soldiers wounded and captured, and it was lost 1,349 tanks and 207 planes.  Eleven Russian generals have been killed as well as 30 colonels, the latest two last weekend.

This may be the reason an opposition member of parliament went public in a parliament session demanding an end to the war, and why 18 Russian military recruiting offices so far have been firebombed with Molotov cocktails.  Russia is now sending obsolete 60-year old T-62 tanks into Ukraine to replace more modern tanks that have been destroyed, and some  of its soldiers are being issued rifles first used by the army of Czar Nicholas II in the 1890s.

However Russian losses in Ukraine are still below the level of those incurred by the Soviets in their invasion of Finland in 1939, sparking bitter and sustained Finnish resistance in the 1939-1940 Winter War.  While Putin sent a little more than 100,000 men into Ukraine, Stalin sent a million soldiers into Finland.   Soviets suffered over 125,000 killed, five times Finland's losses, as well as 3,500 tanks and  500 planes destroyed.

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