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Again, Russian casualties are only significantly more higher (in the hundreds of thousands range) If you include PMCs, irregular volunteer formations, etc.
I am only including Russian professionals.
From your wikipedia link "Men from the poverty-stricken regions of Russia's Far North, Far East and Siberia were overrepresented among Russian war casualties."
Yeah, because irregular volunteer formations rely on their local regional government to supply them with weapons and equipment not the federal government. This is well shown by the Tuvan volunteers who come from the poorest region in Russia which shows in their equipment:
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So they rely heavily on donations:
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Thankfully Chechnya has recently taken on the burden of training and equipping them (why you see them being shipped from Chechnya) as shown here:
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Chechnya training and sending more batches of volunteers from across Russia to the SMO zone:
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All I'm hearing is Putin sends Russian soldiers into war without weapons, but with mobile crematoriums so the dead bodies can create more diamonds of death for his crown. We know the true numbers of dead aren't been reported and mothers of dead Russian soldiers are complaining that they don't even know what happened to their sons. They don't even get an empty coffin to bury and idk, what do they get in exchange for their son's life? A ribbon? A medal?
Question - Putin said the war was supposed to last for 2 days or 2 weeks or whatever. Do you think Putin regrets invading Ukraine? Do you?