Russia’s Toretsk Offensive: 50,000 Troops Lost, Ukrainian Defenses Hold
“Stadium of death near Toretsk”: Russia lost 50,000 troops but failed to break Ukrainian defenses. My brain immediately goes to the scale of it all when you hear those numbers. Fifty thousand people. It’s the kind of figure that conjures images of a packed European stadium, teeming with life. But these aren’t fans cheering on a game. These are soldiers, sent to die near Toretsk, and the scale of loss is just staggering. It makes you stop and think about the sheer human cost of this conflict.
The comparison to the Vietnam War is unavoidable, isn’t it? Fifty thousand casualties. It’s a number that echoes the grim statistics of that past conflict.… Continue reading
Matt Underwood 
John Q. Hosedrinker