Saturday 23 April 2022

How many Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and injured?

With all the blunderings and failures by the Russian invading forces in Ukraine and the casualties they have suffered, very little has been revealed about Ukrainian soldiers killed and injured. The casualty toll must be huge. While it is good for morale for the Ukrainian government not to spell out the enormous sacrifices that must have been made, at some point in this war the fatality statistics will have to be disclosed if only to emphasise to the world what Ukraine has suffered at the hands of Russian troops. In the Donbas region it is now a war of attrition with long-range artillery being used by the Russians across a 300-mile-long front. The results will be devastating. Boris Johnson has said the war could continue until the end of next year. But by then the death and injury toll on both sides will be unimaginable. Can slaughter on this scale continue for another 18 to 20 months? It seems Vladimir Putin cares nothing for the calamity he has created and wants to push further, possibly into Moldova. But, like Ukraine, Moldova is not a member of Nato, so will the alliance stand by once again and watch as Putin tries to seize more territory for his grand plan of recreating the Soviet Empire? There is now only one solution left. Putin has to be stopped. He has to be defeated. But somehow he has to be defeated without bringing on a third world war. I just don't know if that's possible.

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