Megadeath
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I know how to read, which is apparently more than you.It literally took me 10 seconds to find the BBC article in question, which has their estimate based off their own research as of May 12th showing less than 2,500 Russian KIA. Maybe you should take the time to actually look up things before trying to argue on them, when it's clear you don't know anything?
"BBC Russian Service has established that the names of 2,336 Russian soldiers who died during the fighting in Ukraine have already been confirmed."
"The BBC bases its analysis only on reports containing specific information about the deceased, including the full name and rank"
"our list is clearly incomplete, and the real losses of the Russian army and the National Guard in Ukraine are higher."
They're not saying for a moment, even in the shitty, censored Russian website that only 2,336 Russians have been killed. They're saying that they can specifically and unequivocally identify that many, and that there are definitely more.
... I don't know if you're bad at English comprehension, or if you're just stupid. That the Russians controlled the side they started on, with the river being the "front" is specifically and exactly the case. But no, it wasn't contested at point blank range with armour from both sides literally intermingled. That is insane. Even commanders as monumentally stupid as the Russians have proven to have would not try to establish a pontoon bridge with enemies parked right on the other bank. Nor is there a plausible scenario whereby they build a bridge and then fighting happens such that some Ukrainian armour ends up driving over it to the other side. Did you learn everything you know about armed conflic from command and conquer?No, but that's precisely what you're suggesting in reverse lol.
If the Russians were in a Russian controlled area, why exactly where they attempting a river crossing and who exactly was shooting at them? Or, you know, it's exactly what I said and anybody putting more than five seconds of critical thinking into it would realize that; the Russians controlled one side of the river, the Ukies the other and the Russians did a combat crossing of it. Since both sides have AFVs, they naturally would be shooting at each other and take losses of the same. The destroyed vehicles in the video are quite clearly of both sides and even if wanted to ignore those with Ukie specific camo patterns and assign all of the vehicle losses to the Russians, the idea an entire BTG-or three, as someone else seriously suggested lol-was lost isn't consistent with less than two dozen vehicles seen in the video.
The Russians tried to build a bridge over the river, and quickly get an armoured force to the other side, where they'd be able to achieve tactical encirclement of Ukrainian forces in a nearby city. Thanks to the foolish decision of the Russian commander to pack his forces tightly at his end of the bridge for maximum speed, combined with Ukrainian drone support and probably foreign intelligence sharing, the Ukrainians were able to blow it all to hell with artillery and drone strikes, and only then mopped up what few forces made it across with their own armour. As anyone anybody putting more than five seconds of critical thinking into it would realise.