Someone needs to draw journalist Putin furiously writing fake russian propaganda for all the major American newspapers.

I mean it probably is a lie, i’d multiply that number by about six to get a rough ballpark estimate. And that’s just straight up combat casualties, you add up defections and other attrition and you’re probably safer going times eight. On the other hand, i think that this is about right for Russia’s losses. As usual most of what the pro-Ukraine propaganda writes about this conflict is projection.