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How many people have died in the current Ukraine war? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Maddison@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I realize this is lazy, but I did try to wiki this and I don't know if the numbers are accurate and it's pretty complicated to read.

I want to know the numbers on both sides. I realize this might seem a little unsensitive and there is a story behind every number, but I still want to know the human cost of war. Because it does look like it's one of the worst wars in terms of human cost in recent memory. Now, how many people have died in the war and are we doing everything we can to end the war?

Edit: War Casualties Stands at 500k (Russian + Ukrainian, excluding civilians), this number is from the https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/ukraine-russia-war-casualties.html

I doubt the Ukrainian Death count mentioned here, 70k (200k casualties), I doubt if the death toll among the Ukrainians are that low.

Just to put things into perspective 58,220 US personnel died (Fatal casualties) in Vietnam which lasted close to a decade.

Edit 2: Abandoning this thread. I got my answer and I have been using Lemmy a lot these past days (and that's not good. We all have better things to do than sit infront of a computer)

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I read a few weeks ago it was like 200k-300k for Ukraine and closer to 400k-ish for Russia, but Russian numbers are hard to verify.

[–] Ropianos@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume you mean casualties? In that case outright deaths would be approximately a third of that.

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what's the difference?

[–] Maddison@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

casualties include people take out of fight (I think), amputees, wounded who won't fight again if I am not wrong.

Edit: In civilian usage, a casualty is a person who is killed, wounded or incapacitated by some event; the term is usually used to describe multiple deaths and injuries due to violent incidents or disasters. It is sometimes misunderstood to mean "fatalities", but non-fatal injuries are also casualties. -Wiki

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, thanks

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 1 year ago

If you lose your hand, you're a casualty. If you lose your head, you're a death.

[–] mbrx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Does that include civilians, it sounds a bit on the low side for that for me, but I have no source or anything. I know that a lot of children was kidnapped and taken to Russia so that's quite more also.