just a few decades ago Ukraine was socialist
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Nope sorry Ukraine has only lost 50 men to Russia’s 50 million. This is a true and undeniable fact and they keep giving up land because uh not enough F-35s
Has the actual dataset been made public yet? While I do believe that Russian hackers could obtain this data, I'm sceptical because of the timing. The (dis-)information war always intensifies when there are mentions of possible peace talks.
If Russia really has this data there are almost no downsides for them to release it to the public. It even could help them with increasing unrest within Ukraine (showing actual casualties in the war to the masses and imagine the actions from families that receive no financial support because their loved ones allegedly are 'AWOL' while they're actually dead, but to save on costs and morale they are not reported as such).
I think that it's possible they have reason not to release it because the information might help Ukraine to identify where the leak is, so instead the RF just uses for for internal benefit. The more that you relay to substantiate something with details, the more that your opposition can narrow down where you got it from (based on where all those details were available), which helps them find whatever fault let you access it.
I passively assume that all these leaks are fake, but I don't really have an argument for it one way or the other.
Christ. This is the result of gleefully throwing Ukrainian lives into a blender (mostly conscripted against their will) to own the Russians.
All instead of seriously pursuing the very easy, peace plan alternative of "let the DPR/LPR vote on self determination". Millions of lives down the drain to prevent a democratic vote that might've gone against western interests.
What the actual fuck
Even a tenth of that is too much for a war like so, and this source says it's possible that it's five times the official consensus?
Frankly, I hope it's fake...