Between 20,000 and 50,000 Ukrainians have lost one or more limbs since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
The figure is based on estimates made by prosthetics firms, doctors, and charities. The number could be higher as it takes time to register amputees after they undergo surgery, and fighting has intensified since Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in June.
The higher-end estimate of 50,000 came from the German prosthetics manufacturer Ottobock, which cited data from the government and medical partners. The estimate of 20,000 was based on data from the Kyiv-based charity Health of the Ukrainian People ICF. The charity estimates the number of serious injuries in the war is at 200,000 and says about 10% of serious injuries typically require amputations.
The number of Ukrainian amputations puts the war on the scale of World War I. According to the report, some 67,000 Germans and 41,000 Britons had to have amputations during the four-year war. Less than 2,000 Americans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan in this century have had amputations.
Ukraine has kept its casualty rates a secret throughout the war for propaganda purposes, but the staggering number of Ukrainians who lost limbs gives an idea of the human cost of the war.
Citing Ukrainian military estimates shared with American surgeons, the Journal report said that out of 100 soldiers wounded within about 3 miles of the front line, 36% suffered very severe injuries, while between 5% and 10% of all deployed troops were killed.
Despite the massive human cost, the Biden administration has shown no interest in pushing for peace talks. The US and its Western partners pushed for Ukraine to go on the offensive, knowing that Ukrainian forces did not have enough weapons and training to dislodge Russian troops.
The lad’s prosthetic device costs over $10,000.. I suppose the American taxpayer is paying for that as well as everything else with a Ukraine label?
ghoulishly, probably the US will subsidize ukrainian prosthetics industries so they pay for limbs themselves
Morbid.
And close to reality 🙁
“WSJ: 20,000-50,000 Ukrainians Have Lost Limbs Since Russia Invaded – The amputations are on the scale of World War I”
350,000 Killed in Action
80,000 In critical condition never to function again
20,000 to 50,000 amputated.
Joey Biden and Victoria Nuland have blood on their hands to protect the Biden Crime Family.
Zelensky should have taken the neutrality deal in March of 2022.
True enough. These war pigs must somehow be made to pay for their many sins. But, how? Voting accomplishes nothing significant. Protesting is even more useless. Perhaps the only real solution is succession.
Go back to Operation Aerodynamic and start counting…
Their lives are now ruined for the profits of America’s Corporatocracy.
that’s part of it – but also, detached from economics, their lives are ruined for the neocon sick dream of power – of ‘full spectrum domination’ of US/nato expansion over a post-Soviet Russia
We can all take personal pride in the humanitarian concern shown by a great leader in his willingness to thoroughly train his Ukrainian stooges before he commits them to the meat grinder.
I’ve been called crazy and worse by some for pointing out how bad Ukraine’s causulties are but unfortunately (I’d love to be wrong about something like this) this article just shares a variation of what I have shared.
What a sad way to be proven right.
“Despite the massive human cost, the Biden administration has shown no interest in pushing for peace talks.”
Correction, Dave – Despite the massive human cost, the Biden administration has – from the start – publicly opposed peace talks.
If this isn’t enough to make one weep I don’t know what is. We can thank the Kagan cabal, the Vegetable-in-Chief, BoJo the Clown, and ZelBoy himself for the beginning and continuation of this sh*tshow.
ZelBoy apparently wants a country, or what’s left of it, full of dead, dying and disabled men.
Send the mentally and spiritually ill over there, the ones that are confused to be cannon fodder from the glorious Russians.
The MSM talks about soldiers from nations allied with the West but they neither talk about Russians nor civilians in the war zones where the West wages war.