An examination of publicly-reported deaths shows that at least 207 Ryazan ex-cadets have been killed since Russia launched its invasion, a figure that represents around 4.5 percent of graduates over the past decade. Not all deaths are publicly reported
Haven’t seen numbers like that since '68…
Lol, I googled it and got a really interesting article. It’s, like, not a coincidence, man! https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2022-03-07/local-news/What-s-common-between-World-War-I-World-War-II-and-invasion-of-Ukraine-the-number-68-6736241216
I was more referring to how many young American officers took friendly fire, or died otherwise Vietnam.
Based on this, Russia has lost at least 5% of their armed forces in Ukraine - a startling number.
300K losses on 1.2 million active personnel is a quarter.
The well trained officers are a small percentage of the officers in the Russian military and are also deployed to other locations than the fighting in Ukraine. So extrapolating such a small dataset of specialized officers towards the whole of the Russian forces greatly underestimates the death-toll.
