Ukraine's Proxy War > 1.7 million deceased Ukrainian soldiers since 2022? 1000 bodies returned to Ukraine

 

These brave soldiers may have thought they died for Ukraine, but really, they died for western war industries' profits, and nothing else.

Ukraine has lost over 1.7 million troops – leaked docs

The casualties are allegedly detailed in a digital card index of the country’s armed forces obtained by Russian hackers

FILE PHOTO. ©  Roman Pilipey / Getty Images

Ukraine has allegedly lost more than 1.7 million troops killed and missing, multiple media outlets reported on Wednesday, citing a digital card index reportedly from the country’s armed forces.

Russian hacking groups have claimed to have obtained the information by gaining access to the personal computers and local networks of the Ukrainian General Staff. The database is said to include the full names of deceased soldiers, descriptions of the circumstances and places of their death or disappearance, personal data, next of kin, and photos.

Casualties increasing

The entries suggest that since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Kiev’s forces have lost a total of 1,721,000 servicemen. 118.5 thousand were apparently killed in 2022, 405.4 thousand in 2023, 595 thousand in 2024 and a record 621 thousand in 2025.

Hackers from the groups Killnet, Palach Pro, User Sec and Beregini are said to have obtained terabytes of information about the Ukrainian military. Aside from personnel losses, the groups allegedly also possess the personal data of the command of the Special Operations Forces and the Main Intelligence Directorate, lists of all countries that have supplied weapons to Kiev and lists of all weapons transferred from 2022 to 2025.

This Ukrainian casualty estimate far exceeds losses previously reported by Kiev.

Of course it does. The first casualty of war is truth.

READ MORE: European military stocks fall on Ukraine peace talks progress

In February, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky told CBS News that since 2022, just 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed, with another 380,000 wounded. The estimate was widely questioned even in Western media, with the France’s Le Monde reporting last month that “the real death toll is likely much higher,” citing Ukraine’s increasing efforts to build military cemeteries.

The Russian military has consistently reported higher casualties among Ukrainian servicemen, claiming their losses particularly surged following Kiev’s unsuccessful counteroffensive in 2023. As of February, more than 1.08 million Ukrainian troops had been killed or wounded, according to Moscow’s estimates.

Russia hands over remains of 1,000 troops to Ukraine – Putin aide

Moscow has received the bodies of 19 of its fallen soldiers from Kiev in return, Vladimir Medinsky has said

Is this representative of the proportionality of casualties for each side? Yikes!

FILE PHOTO: A convoy carrying the bodies of the Ukrainian servicemen. ©  Telegram / Vladimir Medinsky

Moscow has returned the bodies of another 1,000 fallen Ukrainian soldiers, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky has said.

Russia has received the remains of 19 of its soldiers from Ukraine in return, Medinsky, Moscow’s top negotiator during the talks with Kiev in Türkiye, wrote on Telegram on Tuesday.

The bodies were returned to Kiev “in line with the Istanbul agreements,” he added.

Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirmed that it had received the remains of 1,000 servicemen.

The swap follows a summit on Friday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, and the US president’s meetings in Washington on Monday with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky and Western European leaders, during which a possible settlement of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev was discussed.

READ MORE: Putin wants Ukraine conflict to end – Trump

Moscow offered to repatriate the remains of over 6,000 of Kiev’s troops as a humanitarian gesture during the second round of talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul in early June. The promised number of bodies was transferred to Ukraine in the following weeks in several stages. Russia received the remains of 79 of its fallen soldiers in exchange.

Putin announced later that Moscow was ready to return another 3,000 bodies to Kiev.

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Middle East Madness > Lebanese recognizing the evil done by Hezbollah, but Gazans still blind; Palestinian Authority criticizes Hamas's cowardly methods

 

In Lebanon, Voices Are Now Raised Against Hezbollah

Jan 23, 2025 4:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

The rapid and nearly bloodless overthrow of Assad in Syria has turned that country from being a firm ally of Hezbollah and Iran into an implacable enemy of both. And inside Lebanon, Hezbollah has been so battered by the IDF that it had to beg for a ceasefire that requires it to withdraw its forces in southern Lebanon north of the Litani River. Now Lebanese of all stripes have been openly denouncing Hezbollah for the ruin it has brought to so much of Lebanon.

Let us consider what has been happening on the Lebanon-Syria border, where the two countries have been trading barbs and bullets amid mutual exclusions. 

Syria in diplomatic spat with Lebanon, but everyone agrees that Hezbollah is the problem – and for the first time, the Lebanese are saying this out loud

Elder of Ziyon, January 6, 2025:

Since Thursday night, Lebanese citizens are almost all banned from entering Syria.

No one knows exactly why, and analysts are making guesses.

France 24 reports that the reason seems to be that there had been an earlier skirmish between Syrians and Lebanese troops at the border:

The Lebanese army said in a statement on X that its soldiers and Syrians had clashed at the border as the armed forces tried to “close an illegal crossing”.

“Syrians attempted to open the crossing using a bulldozer, so army personnel fired warning shots into the air. The Syrians opened fire on army personnel, injuring one of them and provoking a clash”.

“Army units deployed in the sector have taken strict military measures,” the statement added.

Kataeb reports that this was a quid pro quo on severe Lebanese restrictions on Syrians entering their country:

Sources suggest that Syria’s decision was in response to similar Lebanese restrictions on Syrians entering Lebanon. Lebanese authorities currently require Syrians to meet strict entry conditions, including holding valid Lebanese residency permits.

L’Orient Today believes it might be because of fears of Hezbollah trying to re-establish itself.

One explanation offered by Syrian experts is security concerns. “The authorities are afraid of fighters infiltrating Syria from Lebanon, whether from Hezbollah or jihadist groups. This measure has come at a time when the new authorities suspect that some of them are entering Syria,” Rami Abdel Rahman, Executive Director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), told us.

Syria wants to prevent Lebanese from entering the county because it fears that those Lebanese will be Hezbollah members who want to infiltrate Syria and to join forces with Alawites and others who still support Assad, and would like to keep their hold on some parts of Syria, such as Latakia, where the Alawites still hold sway.

At the same time, the Lebanese government doesn’t want Syrians entering the country for the same reason. The Lebanese fear that Hezbollah members and sympathizers may want to flee the new regime in Syria and join forces with Hezbollah inside its home base in Lebanon.

This fear is all the more justified after Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Dec. 16 that “the axis of resistance will return to Syria in less than a year,” adding, “The occupied territories in Syria will be liberated by the valiant Syrian youth; have no doubt that this will happen.”…

This may be an empty boast by the Supreme Leader, but it worries the new regime in Syria just the same. The Syrians want to make sure that no Hezbollah fighters arrive from Lebanon to swell the ranks of those who still support the ancien régime in Syria.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah is claiming that they have completely rebuilt their military. Spokesperson Wafiq Safa said, “Our capabilities are fully restored, and we are prepared to face any attack. Hezbollah is now stronger, tougher than steel, and more powerful than ever before” in a statement where he said Hezbollah would veto presidential candidate Samir Geagea.

The Hezbollah spokesman Wafiq Safa is full of braggadoccio, nonsense, and lies. His group is not “stronger, tougher than steel, and more powerful than ever before.” The IDF has killed nearly 5,000 of its operatives, severely wounded thousands more with the “exploding pagers,” and eliminated all of its leaders, including its head Hassan Nasrallah, his successor Hashem Safieddine, the commander and deputy commander of the elite Radwan Forces, and ten of the twelve members of the Jihad Council. The IDF has also destroyed more than 80% of Hezbollah’s prewar arsenal of rockets, missiles, and mortars. It has been so battered by the IDF that it had to plead for a ceasefire, one that requires it to withdraw its forces entirely from southern Lebanon

Hezbollah has lost more than 80% of its arsenal of missiles and rockets, thousands of its fighters have been killed and many thousands more wounded. It has been stripped of its Syrian conduit for Iranian weapons. Militarily it has never been weaker. The fear that the group once installed in Lebanese has clearly dissipated, and its critics have been speaking out as they would not have dared to do even a month ago, before Assad fell. Every charge is being made against the group: “you threatened us, killed us,” “you took refuge in our homes, hiding in our homes and beds,” you “cost us our children, families, hopes, and dreams.” The rebellion against Hezbollah by the Lebanese themselves has now begun in earnest, and it is hard to see how the group will be able to hold on, given that it has been stripped of most of its weapons, deprived of its Syrian ally, and facing a powerful Israel that is ready at any moment, should Hezbollah violate its pledge to leave southern Lebanon, to batter it anew.

It's a good sign that the Lebanese are recognizing the horrific damage Hezbollah has done to that beautiful country. What is inexplicable is why Gazans have not realized the great evil that Hamas has committed upon them. Perhaps it means that all Gazans are radicalized Muslims. Their vociferous hatred of Jews would support that idea. Or, maybe it is 20 years of brainwashing by Hamas that is responsible.

Palestinian Authority says Hamas disguised as civilians caused civilian deaths and destruction of Gaza

Jan 25, 2025 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

No one will pay any attention. They’re far too invested in demonizing Israel.

Palestinian Authority: Hamas disguised as civilians caused civilian deaths and destruction of Gaza

by Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, January 23, 2025:

The Palestinian Authority’s official daily admitted that Hamas terrorists disguised themselves as civilians and used civilian homes to launch attacks, thus deliberately increasing casualties in Gaza. Moreover, the PA called Hamas insolent for only putting on uniforms during the ceasefire in order to take credit.

Headline: “Shame branches out from faith”

“When three female Israeli hostages were released, Hamas members recently appeared armed and masked in their army uniforms, and in a completely flashy manner! Over the last 15 months of the war, we have not seen any of these activists in these uniforms. They were dressed in civilian shirts and pants, wore sandals (!!) [parentheses in source], and some were in pajamas. From among people’s homes – as Al-Jazeera TV presented them – they fired their [RPG] rockets at the occupation army’s vehicles, and retreated behind these homes. This matter, in addition to the racist and violent Israeli response to these rockets, is what contributed to increasing the losses among civilian residents of the slaughtered Gaza Strip…

When shame ends, only insolence remains. For 15 months of harsh war, Hamas did not dare to show even one of its operatives in military uniforms (!!) [parentheses in source], but when the ceasefire agreement stipulated that the cannons be silenced, Hamas brought out its operatives in military uniforms – not only for display purposes, but also to fabricate a victory narrative!”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 22, 2025]…

The Hamas War > Hamas' greatly exaggerated casualty numbers exposed

 

Gaza death toll inflated to promote

anti-Israel narrative, study finds

By 

Deirdre Bardolf

Published Dec. 14, 2024, 6:15 p.m. ET

Civilian death counts in the Israel-Hamas war have been inflated and distorted to portray Israel as deliberately targeting innocent civilians, a new study found.

The report from the UK-based Henry Jackson Society found that news outlets failed to distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties and relied on manipulated statistics from the Hamas-run Health Ministry when reporting on the war.

Gaza officials claim more than 44,700 people have been killed following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, but does not acknowledge that upwards of 17,000 were Hamas terrorists — a fact the media often omits, the study found, citing Israeli and US military and intelligence reports for its data.

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A think tank investigation into the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health’s fatality reports revealed widespread inaccuracies and distortion in the data collection process throughout the war.

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An understanding of the Gaza fatality data is critical in understanding the conduct of the war by the IDF and Israel, the Henry Jackson Society argued.

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The “Questionable Counting” study, published on Saturday, charged that the ministry overstated casualty data by including natural deaths and over-reporting the numbers of women and children killed.

Men were included on lists of women killed in the conflict, while adults were included on counts of child deaths, researchers found.

“This misclassification contributes to the narrative that civilian populations, particularly women and children, bear the brunt of the conflict, potentially influencing sentiment and media coverage,” said Andrew Fox, the study’s author.

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Mohammed Abu Saied mourns as he carries the body of his four-year-old daughter Sila in Gaza on Dec. 9.

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Around 5,000 natural deaths appear to have been added to the list of casualties, including cancer patients who later appeared on lists of those still receiving treatment, researchers said.

The errors have “led to a narrative where the Israel Defense Forces are portrayed as disproportionately targeting civilians,” the report states.

Deep State's legacy media from all over the world reported 500 deaths as a consequence of an Israeli missile strike. The strike turned out to be a hole in the parking lot no more than a foot deep. Israeli missiles would make a much bigger impact than that. Al Jezeera footage showed the rocket breaking up in the air with one portion falling in the hospital parking lot. Experts admit this was not an Israeli missile. Several cars were burned in the parking lot, so a few deaths were certainly likely. But for 500 people to die they would all have had to be standing within a few meters of the impact spot, an absurd idea that never occurred to the far-left media. The IDF told the truth, Hamas lied as usual.

It is easy to accept that Hamas' casualty numbers are close to twice reality.

The investigation looked at all articles with Gaza fatality statistics published from February through May 2024 across eight major outlets: CNN, BBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters and the Australian ABC.