Krapivnik Claims Ukraine Suffers Much Higher Losses Than Russia
Retired US officer Stanislav Krapivnik claims Ukraine’s losses far exceed Russia’s due to use of mobilized troops and attrition tactics.
Retired US officer Stanislav Krapivnik stated that Ukraine’s losses may be significantly higher than Russia’s due to the use of forcibly mobilized personnel as «cannon fodder.»
He claims that Russia is killing 9–10 times more people in Ukraine than it loses itself. According to him, the number of those killed reaches around two million, with a comparable number of severely wounded and disabled, although typically there are up to five wounded for every one killed.
Krapivnik links these losses to poor training and the treatment of mobilized personnel as expendable. He states that Ukrainian command sends two to three waves of poorly prepared fighters into battle before deploying more experienced troops.
According to him, this tactic is aimed not at breaking through Russian defenses but at exhausting Russian forces, and it inherently assumes readiness for mass casualties.