Has anyone figured out the flaw in my reasoning yet? I just noticed that the source for Forbes numbers is Ukraine! You guys are probably too polite to have pointed this out! I tried to read the entire article to get some insight but it's in Ukrainian language which I had to use Google translate to read. If I understood it correctly, the payment to families of dead soldiers is now $110.000, not 68. 000 supposedly because of the weakening of the ruble, which doesn't make sense. If they pay a fixed amount of rubles to each family, as the ruble weakens against the dollar, the dollar amount would be smaller, not larger. And the article gave the impression of being a propaganda piece, not serious journalism. So I think I now go back to being a doubter. I still think that Ukraine is killing three times as many russians as they are losing them selves, but I think their calculations of russian personnel losses are exaggerated, just guessing by maybe a quarter.) Although, early in the war some people actually bought data from russia on the amount paid to surviving families and that data closely reflected Ukrainian figures, so I just really don't know. And it's possible that Ukraine, who seem to have contacts within the russian government, has those figures also. I DO believe the figures on equipment losses as those are closely traced by individuals who require visual confirmation.
BTW, using the $110,000 figure, it would imply about 227,000 dead whereas Ukraine is claiming about 271, 000. That would seem to make some sense.
