>>510442005you can get a pretty good idea on ukraine's casualties based on how many volunteers have been killed, and you use the same ratio for the ukrainian army (volunteers probably won't have as dangerous missions either). i recall it was around ~250,000 kia, which is over a million casualties. that's similar to russia's million casualties. they've also lost about 10 million who fled, and they won't be coming back.
as for cost, the west has massively depleted irreplaceable gear, and vance said as much himself. europe is mostly empty in that they can't supply ukraine.
>>510441810parts of ukraine don't want to be with ukraine anymore, and that's a reality that ukraine needs to accept. that's why the whole thing started. areas seceded. as budanov said, ukraine won't be able to take back any land that russia has taken: in war, you don't always get what you want. russia may want all of ukraine, but they won't get it.