General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
2 hours
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 21.08.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 21.08.25
personnel – about / about 1073530 (+830) persons
tanks / tanks – 11120 (+1) from
troop-carrying AFVs – 23157 (+5) from
artillery systems / artillery systems – 31789 (+41) from
MLRS / MLRS – 1471 (+1) from
anti-aircraft systems / anti-aircraft systems – 1209 (+1) from
aircraft / aircraft – 422 (+0) from
helicopters – 340 (+0)
UAV operational-tactical level – 52469 (+315)
cruise missiles – 3565 (+0)
warships – 28 (+0)
submarines – 1 (+0)
vehicles and fuel tanks – 59316 (+114)
special equipment – 3944 (+1)
"Only the price on the chart can show the entrance to the deal..."
Ex US military Douglas MacGregor says his intel contacts in Poland tell him the Ukraine army to date has lost 1.8 million dead.
2 weeks ago I posted the MacGregor claim that he had from his Polish military intel sources the figure for Ukraine troop deaths of 1.8 million.
That's suspiciously close to the 1.7 million from the Russian hackers released yesterday who claim to have got into the Ukraine military database. They found over 1.7 million individual files documenting Ukrainians killed in action and missing in action.
Neither source has been verified though the hacked files are extremely detailed and should be able to be verified given time.
In addition to the above revelation, a detailed study reviewed by Alexander Mercouris on his YouTube channel found that 81% Ukrainians who joined the army at the start of the SMO are now dead (see link below).
On the bright side, great news, Estonia has raised 180 troops to send to Ukraine. Well done the lads.
Now NATO just needs to find another 599,820.
They won't be coming from Germany though, despite Merz's bellicose war cries a recent poll shows 56% are totally opposed to any military intervention of German troops in Ukraine at all.
Zelensky and the west still seem to be under the delusion Putin will allow NATO troops into Ukraine to act as 'peacekeepers'. This is so obviously wrong on so many levels it's hard to believe that Trump and the European leadership really can't see it.
NATO is a co-belligerent, they are very much a major part of the conflict. They supply money, munitions, equipment, intel and personnel to one side only. To pretend they are impartial is laughable.
Zelensky and the Europeans main aim since the failed summer offensive has always been to find a way to get US boots on the ground. They see that as the only way Ukraine can avoid losing the attritional war against Russia.
This is why the security guarantees (US backstop) issue is so important to them. With NATO troops in Ukraine and a US promise to get involved as per a backstop then staging an incident that triggers US involvement in a hot war would be easy for MI6 or the CIA to set up.
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
3 hours
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 22.08.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 22.08.25
personnel – about / about 1074320 (+790) persons
tanks / tanks – 11124 (+4) from
troop-carrying AFVs – 23160 (+3) from
artillery systems / artillery systems – 31835 (+46) from
MLRS / MLRS – 1472 (+1) from
anti-aircraft systems / anti-aircraft systems – 1210 (+1) from
aircraft / aircraft – 422 (+0) from
helicopters / helicopters – 340 (+0)
UAV operational-tactical level – 52787 (+318)
cruise missiles – 3598 (+33)
warships – 28 (+0)
submarines – 1 (+0)
vehicles and fuel tanks – 59426 (+110)
special equipment – 3944 (+0)
"Only the price on the chart can show the entrance to the deal..."
Russia will not agree to any ceasefire until after there is an agreement for the ending of the conflict.
Western countries have signalled they will not send troops to Ukraine until there is a ceasefire.
Therefore there can be no western troops in Ukraine before a final agreement, or after, because Russia will not allow the stationing of western troops in Ukraine to be a part of the final agreement.
So the US and the European leadership had better get used to the idea of a neutral Ukraine with just verbal guarantees rather than western military units being stationed there.
And after all, what's the difference? If Russia breaks the agreement they would expect to see western troops be moved to Ukraine directly.
Of course if the Russians signed an agreement they'd not been forced into, then there's no reason to expect they would see a need to break it anyway.
Of course if Ukraine was forced to sign an agreement there's every reason to expect them to break it.
So long as Zelensky and the European leadership keep demanding western troops in Ukraine with a US backstop then there will never be any peace agreement and Trump may just as well get out now.
The morons of our current western leadership seem to think that we don't need to engage in any kind of diplomacy if we don't want to, a bit like the petulant child.
The Russians are proving the old adage that war is politics by other means and that they do have a veto over western decisions, it's on the battlefield.
So the conflict will roll on. Meanwhile many western commentators calculate that at the current rate of advance it will take Russia 4 more years to take the whole of the Donetsk oblast.
The problem with that calculation is that it assumes that the progression of war is linear, it is not.
In WW1 after preliminaries the 2 sides stood toe to toe and slugged it out for for some 2-3 years barely moving at all, and then very suddenly it was all over.
One side just wasn't there anymore.
The same result is most likely in this conflict as well.
Reminder too that Ukraine is not a Germany or a US or a France. In the great game the big pieces are never sacrificed for a pawn, it's always the other way round.
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
1 hour
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 23.08.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 23.08.25
personnel – about / about 1075160 (+840) persons
tanks / tanks – 11129 (+5) from
troop-carrying AFVs – 23164 (+4) from
artillery systems / artillery systems – 31858 (+23) from
MLRS / MLRS – 1472 (+0) from
anti-aircraft systems / anti-aircraft systems – 1210 (+0) from
aircraft / aircraft – 422 (+0) from
helicopters – 340 (+0)
UAV operational-tactical level – 52935 (+148)
cruise missiles – 3598 (+0)
warships – 28 (+0)
submarines – 1 (+0)
vehicles and fuel tanks – 59512 (+86)
special equipment – 3944 (+0)
"Only the price on the chart can show the entrance to the deal..."
Not much happening on the diplomatic front last couple of days as the 4 sides digest recent events and Trump continuing to make confusing statements that seem to contradict each other.
It would make life easier if Trump would say which off the cuff remark was for who. So for example, this one's for the neocons – 'we'll be sending troops soon', and this one's for Putin – 'we won't be sending troops', and to the Europeans – 'we might give a backstop', and to Zelensky – 'we're not giving a backstop'.
On the battlefront Russians making some gains in Zaporizhia district but the ground is flat and heavily mined so the effort is mainly to keep Ukraine troops fixed there. The main Russian plan is to finish with the Donbas and then sweep west and north east from there so attacking Zap from the east rather than from the south.
In Pokrovsk the Ukrainian military 'deep state' map has got stuck again and hasn't changed since they drew the bisecting of the Russian breakout north.
Other mappers show no bisecting (never did) and rather show a fattening out of the breakout region.
Since Ukraine rushed troops to the Pokrovsk breakout they have been losing ground steadily around the cities of Kostiantynivka and Kupiansk.
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
2 hours
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 24.08.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 24.08.25
personnel – about / about 1076070 (+910) persons
tanks / tanks – 11129 (+0) from
troop-carrying AFVs – 23167 (+3) from
artillery systems / artillery systems – 31898 (+40) from
MLRS / MLRS – 1472 (+0) from
anti-aircraft systems / anti-aircraft systems – 1211 (+1) from
aircraft / aircraft – 422 (+0) from
helicopters – 340 (+0)
UAV operational-tactical level – 53056 (+121)
cruise missiles – 3598 (+0)
warships – 28 (+0)
submarines – 1 (+0)
vehicles and fuel tanks – 59593 (+81)
special equipment – 3944 (+0)
"Only the price on the chart can show the entrance to the deal..."
Oh dear, Trump seems to have reverted back to pretending he is in control. Probably in response to neocons going on TV to tell America that Zelensky needs US troops asap.
So Trump gives Putin 2 more weeks (again), to do what? Surrender? Stop winning? Trump is pretending, again, that he has any leverage over Putin at all.
This is all bullshit, the only person Trump ever had any leverage over was Zelensky.
Putin will of course just continue on winning. He has 2 pathways to his goals.
Zelensky only has 1, to get the US to achieve his goals for him.
Trump only has 1, because getting Putin to surrender is impossible. Continuing as-is is impossible. All Trump can actually do is get Zelensky to surrender.
But the neocons really won't like that so we’ll all keep going round in circles until Ukraine finally disintegrates.
So what are the neocons up to? They really don't want to lose but even so.
Lyndsey Graham keeps pushing 500% tariffs on India and China, Biden told India to buy Russian oil to prevent global oil price rises that would harm the US.
China producers will not sell in the US with a 500% tariff, they have expanding markets elsewhere while the US will have to buy elsewhere but at higher prices = US inflation.
All this has been pointed out many times.
500% tariffs is an obvious bluff.
Retired US General Keane says the US must send troops to Ukraine, such a huge escalation would inevitably lead to a major war between the US and Russia. But the US has admitted they are out of ammo (and everything else they would need to fight a war on the European continent).
Sending US troops to Ukraine is an obvious bluff.
The neocons really think all this patent bullshit will work because the're sure Putin himself is bluffing and won't risk the possible consequences if the US really were to enact these threats.
The neocon's serious miscalculation is that Putin is not bluffing, his reticence about escalation is caution but at the end of the day when he said NATO expansion would lead to war he meant it, and it did.
And, in his eyes, having been forced into it he's not going to just stop, certainly not without making sure it won't just restart any time soon.
The only possible conclusion to all this is that the western neocons really aren't very bright, in fact they're stupid.
To quote, the current plan is: 'The US is going to sell weapons they don't have to Europe, who will buy them with money they don't have, to give to Ukraine to be used by men they don't have,
Europe is destroying itself, NATO will follow, the US wants out except the neocons who want in, Russia is expanding and Ukraine is shrinking.
Ukraine is losing badly even with maximum realistic support available from the west. The only path to a solution now is to get rid Zelensky. Until then Ukraine will just keep shrinking.
Zelensky by the way has just said what he really needs now is a lot more F-16s, that'll do it. He doesn't have any pilots or ground crew or anything but never mind.
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
39 min
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 25.08.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 25.08.25
personnel – about / about 1076940 (+870) persons
tanks / tanks – 11130 (+1) from
troop-carrying AFVs – 23175 (+8) from
artillery systems / artillery systems – 31946 (+48) from
MLRS / MLRS – 1472 (+0) from
anti-aircraft systems / anti-aircraft systems – 1211 (+0) from
aircraft / aircraft – 422 (+0) from
helicopters / helicopters – 340 (+0)
UAV operational-tactical level – 53347 (+291)
cruise missiles – 3598 (+0)
warships – 28 (+0)
submarines – 1 (+0)
vehicles and fuel tanks – 59672 (+79)
special equipment – 3948 (+4)
"Only the price on the chart can show the entrance to the deal..."
The Wall Street Journal reports that US officials have blocked the use of US-manufactured Army Tactical Missile Systems (Atacms), which have a range of nearly 200 miles.
The batch of Atacms were sent to Europe and may be forwarded onto Ukraine. The block is the continuation of Biden's that they cannot be fired deep into Russian territory despite Zelensky's constant pleading to be allowed to do so.
Trump says the block is to help the negotiation process to find peace but everyone knows the real reason is Putin's threat of retaliation to western personnel firing western missiles deep into Russia will be returned in kind to western bases anywhere in the world.
Zelensky has been set on developing his own missiles instead though they must have suffered set backs as he has been trying for years but they have not yet made any impact.
The first set back was the Russian Oreshnik missile demonstration on the Dnipro city military industrial site in 2024. A massive multi block underground complex built during Soviet times was believed to have been totally destroyed.
There is still a news blackout from the site but there has been no production output of any kind since.
The Russians revealed they staged a drone and missile attack on a multi building complex just over a week ago which was believed to been set up to produce the Sapsan long range missile system. It too was totally destroyed.
Ukraine is now concentrating on the new Flamingo missile. A ground-launched cruise missile developed by Fire Point with a reported range of 3,000 km and a 1,150 kg warhead. It entered serial production in 2025 and is considered Ukraine’s most advanced long-range strike capability.
But it is also considered very slow and heavy and not thought to pose much of a problem to Russian air defence unless fired in huge numbers.
Presumably Ukraine is having the same problems that western missile producers suffer that limit production and that's China's restrictions on the export of rare earth metals and high temperature resistant magnets needed for modern missile manufacture.
New reports that Russia has increased their electronic warfare reach over the Black sea forcing the US Reaper surveillance drones to lose target input, comms and GPS forcing them to return to base using just their own mapping navigation, why have Russia done this now you may ask.
Meanwhile Trump may well be pivoting away from the neocons and Europe and moving towards a partnership with Russia.
Ukraine and it's $12 trillion in natural resource assets was supposed to be the appetizer and Russia ($75 trillion) the main course, but that whole plan's has gone up in smoke.
A share of the $75 trillion instead may be an acceptable compromise (and tough luck the neocons and Europeans and Ukrainians).
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