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I mean, this has already happened. Per Wiki, US numbers in Iraq - 4.5k and in Afghanistan, 2.4k. UK lost ~600-700 troops in both combined, putting you at about 7.5k deaths for both countries across both wars. Russian death numbers in Ukraine range from 7-8k (per the US and Europe) to 14k+ (per Ukraine). I'm more inclined to believe the latter myself, but even going by US numbers, Russia's already either nearly lost as many people as the US+UK in Iraq+Afghanistan, or slightly more than that. And that's without going into equipment losses, or number of generals lost. On that last part, btw. Per all sources, Ukraine has killed 4 Russian Major Generals that we know of so far. Major General is basically a 1 star General in the Russian armed forces. A couple of hours ago, this was reported: It's still unconfirmed by Russia, and based on Gerasimov's death, will likely take a couple of weeks until the family gets the body before it's officially confirmed. However, if it is accurate, this is the first Lt. General killed by Ukraine - Lt. General being the equivalent of a 2 star general. The officers are falling like flies tbh.

she has a Ukr wiki, not an English one, and seemed to be pretty popular in the country - several awards at the very least

Oksana Shvets, 67, Ukrainian actress, killed in a missile attack on Kyiv: https://www.ukrinform.ru/rubric-culture/3432571-v-kieve-vo-vrema-raketnogo-obstrela-pogibla-zasluzennaa-artistka-ukrainy-oksana-svec.html

Another major tennis player shows up in Kyiv, this time after getting military training in Turkey

Benjamin Hall update: stable, out of Ukraine, rumors are had at least one leg amputated due to injuries

another Fox News journalist killed in the same attack that injured Hall https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1503749018102472709 Third confirmed to be Ukrainian journalist Alexandra Kurshyniva, likely the Fox News "fixer" (translator, introducing the foreign team to on the ground contacts, etc.) in Kyiv

they may have found out something new when they were informed of Zakrzewski's death, but IDK. there was twitter chatter that there have been 3 international journalists killed already earlier today. 2 we know, and if the twitter chatter was real, Hall may have passed of his injuries - remains to be seen though

Another reporter killed in the same attack that injured Hall https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewMcKeough/status/1503752102182596612 tweet is not embedding for some reason, but name of dead reporter is cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski.

Unnamed Fox New journalist badly injured by shrapnel near Kyiv EDIT: Twitter chatter IDs him as Benjamin Hall, likely this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Hall_(journalist) He was tweeting from on the ground Ukraine as of yesterday. Injuries reported to be serious

Noura bint Faisal Al Saud, one of the many Saudi royals, dead at 34: https://gulfnews.com/uae/uae-leaders-condole-with-saudi-king-on-the-death-of-princess-noura-bint-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud-1.1647236600387 Not added to Wikipedia yet though

first American journalist killed on the ground per reports on Twitter. 2 NYT journalists shot by Russians in Irpin, 1 killed - still a bunch of confusion on Twitter re: who is dead and who lived EDIT: name of the dead seems to be Brent Renaud. explicit photos of his body all over Twitter, approach with caution - most tweets that name him also have the photos included at the moment, so not adding tweet sources. I'm sure we'll get a confirmed obit soon.

From his wiki: "Ukrainian sources said around 20 major generals had been deployed to the Ukrainian front, of whom three have been killed." Again, this is just embarrassing for the Russians

Beseda has an English Wiki page. Now taking bets on time to being suicided.

Apparently either the Ukrainians or reporters hacked his unit's comms, so there's audio footage floating around Twitter of his next in command calling their higher ups to report he's been killed. Seems like he got caught by a Bayraktar

"Senator Kimberley Kitching has died suddenly in Melbourne"

while Chernobyl going offline isn't as much of a concern given the fuel rods are basically spent and there's little risk of another leak from there, this is concerning: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-10/un-watchdog-lose-data-chernobyl-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant/100898202 Zaporizhzhia no longer transmitting data to UN nuclear watchdog + reports staff have been tortured and the same shift has been working w/o a break since the takeover by the Russians. neither is a good option for the largest NPP in Europe, and both risks catastrophe

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Fethullah Gülen reportedly dead per Twitter. If so, he was 80: https://newsastral.com/fethullah-gulen-oldu-is-dead-fetullah-gulen-the-leader-of-feto-was-claimed-to-have-died/

Reports on Twitter that Gulen is dead: https://newsastral.com/fethullah-gulen-oldu-is-dead-fetullah-gulen-the-leader-of-feto-was-claimed-to-have-died/

For anyone interested in how things are going for Russia, read this thread. Journalists on the ground - not UKR intelligence, journalists - have managed to tap into FSB comms and identify senior agent by essentially looking up their number in the phone book (in this case, an open source app).

41 Combined Arms Army continues to take a miserable beating: What a mess for Russia, again

Vasily Astafyev, Russian/Soviet colonel who participated in Winter War + 2nd World War, dead at 102: https://59.ru/text/gorod/2022/03/07/70493675/

VDV figures are falling like dominoes, at this point I'm only going to update re: them if they're significant enough to have an English Wiki page. With how badly the VDV is doing, one wonders if it will even exist after this, at least as a branch of the armed forces.

I mean Nexta TV over on Twitter was reporting that Shoigu has a coup being planned, Putin knows, and will arrest him this week. Not sure how valid it is, but there are rumblings already. Shoigu's main issue per Russia watchers is that he's ethnically Tuvan, not ethnically Russian. But China considers Tuvans to be part of China, so if Russia falls into their pocket more they may look to Shoigu as a puppet better they can control when Putin's out of the way. + if newest info re: Russian demands is true, at least backdoor they're starting to consider withdrawing. Newest list of demands per Bellingcat is they appoint the PM and Zelenskyy stays President, Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk get "independence," and Ukraine commits to no NATO/EU. Already backing down from the "stop fighting first and give us Kyiv" nonsense that was happening.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3422216-actor-tv-host-pasha-lee-killed-by-russian-invaders-while-defending-irpin-near-kyiv.html Pasha Lee, actor + TV host