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Ah yes, because Zelensky has a long track record of telling it like it is. Just thinking here how gullible somebody has to be to believe that Ukraine went from losing hundreds of people a day to only 30 because 12 HIMARS have been shipped there. I'll trust what US officials have to say on this one https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-taking-hundreds-casualties-daily-ukraine-war-us-official-2022-07-22/
The only thing that doesn't make sense is claiming that geopolitics can be based on trust. Countries that are adversaries inherently can't trust each other. What you do is try to figure out the goals of your competitors, and find ways to find a compromise between their goals and your own.
And what are they going to do exactly. The west can't match Russia in terms of military industrial production. Europe has no food and no fuel right now. If you seriously think that people are gonna tolerate starving and freezing to death to show off Russia, then what else is there to tell you.
Ukranian casualities are classified by the goverment, as well as the location of mobilized solder during his first 90 days of duty. That's gives an possibility to the govement say literally any numbers of casualities.
There are indirect pointers of heavy casualities: introduced military duty on women, introduced mobilisation of infected with tuberculosis (non-officially), hard to leave the country by men, catch civilian attempts to mobilize on streets etc.
Correct, Zelensky is known to lie constantly and he needs to keep up the narrative that things are going well in order to maintain support at home and from simpletons in the west. The official was admitting realistic numbers that every western intelligence agency agrees on. The second link I gave you is from yesterday. US intelligence officials directly contradict the absurd claim form Zelensky you linked.
Your opinion is uninformed and irrelevant. Sooner than later you will have to start adapting your views to the reality of the world.
I've already answered your question in my previous comment. You can keep believing whatever you want to believe, there is no point trying to convince you that the sky is in fact blue and that water is wet. Enjoy wallowing in your delusions while you can.
This figure has been accepted by pretty much all western agencies. Nothing changed since June and now.
You provided a statement from Zelensky, who has a long track record of lying, claiming that Ukrainian casualties magically reduced by an order of magnitude.
Not only that, but I even explained why your source is not trustworthy.
Again, I don't need to convince you of anything. Reality has a way of asserting itself regardless of what you manage to convince yourself of. You keep on enjoying living in your fantasy world while you can.
That's not what I said at all. I trust all the western intelligence agencies and military experts who agree on the figure of hundreds of soldiers being killed in action every day. I wonder what mental gymnastics you'll be performing a month from now.
It takes time for such statistics to become publicly available. And the situation for Ujraine is certainly not getting better, there is no way their casualty numbers are going down by an order of magnitude.
I will do that once actual statistics for July are available.