It's actually confirmed by the Ukrainians' own data.⬇️

First of all, this is a combined database of Ukrainian personnel killed and missing in action, so the claim here isn't actually that the Ukrainians have taken 1.7 million KIA. Given known desertion and POW figures their count of personnel actually killed in action would be closer to 1.4 million. All well and good, AW, you say, but how is this substantiated by Ukrainian admissions?

Well - and as I pointed out myself only a week prior to this leak - the Ukrainian National Institute for Strategic Studies disclosed that there had been no fewer than 120,000 wartime amputations in Ukraine as of early 2025. In war there are generally several personnel killed in action for every amputation case - in Vietnam it was 9:1, in the War on Terror closer to 4:1 thanks to excellent medical evacuation and trauma care. Given the AFU's near-total lack of aerial MEDEVAC and cavalier attitude towards its own casualties we can expect the AFU ratio to be worse than the US Army's in Vietnam.

Even a slightly worse ratio - 10:1 - would suggest 1.2M AFU KIA as of the date of the NISS report earlier this year. The Russian hack also suggested that AFU casualties were accelerating dramatically this year as the Russian battlefield superiority of earlier years turned into something more akin to lopsided dominance, so the remaining delta in casualties of some 200-300,000 personnel KIA can be explained simply through the gap in time between the NISS disclosure in early 2025 and the hack in mid-2025.

So, no, there's nothing at all absurd about this Russian claim. It's actually quite reasonable and corroborated by other sources of data which can be used to infer the Ukrainians' total casualties. It's also quite telling just how weak the debunk attempts are - I saw one straight-face claiming that the Ukrainians are inducting considerably fewer men into their army via desperate and extraordinarily coercive conscription measures than the Russians are via voluntarism in a booming civilian economy.

https://x.com/ArmchairW/status/1962567671645659251?t=lE48hF5xOt8r3W0qtsk01Q&s=19

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768505&forum_id=2,#49228502)

but since its hohol trash led by a kike no one is talking abt that angle, that this is actually an insanely brutal war killing an entire generation of hohol trash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768505&forum_id=2,#49228540)