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Of that million most are Ukraines casualties. And that war has remarkably low civilian casualty rates, Russia is not to keen on massacering civilians and Ukraine is more and more lacking the capability to do so.
Meanwhile in Gaza the dead are overwhelmingly civlian, Israel goes out of its way to create maximal suffering for the people there and does not remotely hide its intention of wanting to colonize the place.
According to both Russia and the west, 1 million Russians have died. 100% with you about Gaza. I see the power dynamic differences and I see Israels openness regarding ethnic cleansing and colonization. But being quite about intentions to colonize doesn't make it less insidious.
So according to Russia, they had 1 million losses? Please provide a source because that would be more than weird, not too long ago credible evidence pointed to less than a tenth of that...
To be completely honest I don't know what I viable source would be. I for sure do not have it from the horses mouth the way I thought I did. I know that I read that number on RT, however, it looks to me like RT might have been running a story from a British source because when I look now I see this one. And unless it's coming from an officers mouth it's gonna be hard to defend as a source.
https://www.rt.com/russia/588507-british-estimate-russia-casualties/
Lots of claims from both sides regarding "leaks"
But I suspect that is all just backdoor misdirection and propaganda games.
There is this org that is clearly run by western institutions but they do seem to be intent on providing a counter narrative to the standard American one.
https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-ukraine-war-report-card/russia-ukraine-war-report-card-oct-8-2025
Could you point me to information or sources that you trust regarding the conflict? I have found it increasingly difficult to trust anything I hear these days.
Thanks!