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North Korea are proving to be more helpful than expected and have tons of old Soviet era hardware that they would be willing to sell in exchange for some more rocket tech or nuke stuff. According to Wikipedia the Soviet era tanks NK has is a few thousand T-55s and some T-62Ms. The T-62 varients are likely good enough to use on the battlefield, but the T-55s may not even be worth the fuel it takes to transport them. Remember Russia was fielding some T-55s not by using them as tanks, but by filling them with explosives and sending them uncrewed against Ukainian lines as bombs-with-tracks. NK also has a bunch of 60 and 70s era Chinese tanks, but China may object to actual Chinese military hardware fighting in Ukraine. source

Russia has been sending people with a broken arm back to the front at times, so some people may be counted twice in that million. Broken arm soldier would be bad, but its not even the worst. Russia is sending soldiers on crutches back into battle: [image: 1785d084-0850-44fb-969b-081317f7749b.jpeg] source

I'm always thankful for these updates. Today it struck me the difference in Russian casualties here compared to the Soviet Afghan war. According to this page the total number of killed and injured Soviets was 68,753. So that means that with today's Russian casualties, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has cost Russia more than 16x the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

Vance called on Russia to "wake up and accept reality" – a reality in which they are suffering heavy losses and "don't have a lot to show for it". Okay, so now Russia "doesn't have the cards", right? Quote: "We remain committed to peace, but it takes two to tango. And unfortunately, what we've seen over the last couple of weeks is that the Russians have refused to sit down with any bilateral meetings with the Ukrainians. They've refused to sit down with any trilateral meetings where the president or some other member of the [US] administration could sit down with the Russians and the Ukrainians." What did he expect? Vance didn't even say "thank you". /s The White House is being run by spoiled brats.