Larry Johnson:

Approximately 19,000 Ukrainian bodies repatriated in total. This contrasts sharply with Russia’s total KIA recovered in the same period — roughly 500–600 bodies. Yet the NY Times wants you to believe that Russia is suffering more than double the casualties of Ukraine, and that Russia, which is firing almost four times the number of artillery shells than Ukraine, is suffering double the casualties.
Ukraine’s problems from Russia’s drone campaign are existential pressures on a society that is already absorbing 30,000–34,000 military casualties per month. In short, Russia’s drone force is larger, is producing at greater scale, is hitting more targets successfully, and is inflicting more damage on its adversary.
Since 2023 Russia has dropped approximately 125,000–135,000 glide bombs on Ukrainian defensive positions. The glide bomb campaign has played a significant role in Russia’s military advances. The fall of Avdiivka, Toretsk, and Pokrovsk were each preceded by intensive glide bomb preparation that destroyed fortifications faster than Ukraine could repair or reinforce them. And yet the NY Times wants us to believe that these bombs barely killed or wounded Ukrainian soldiers manning defensive positions… Right! 125,000 bombs and few, if any,
casualties.
According to data collected through cross-referenced open sources — i.e., obituaries, civil death certificates, geo-located graves, social media announcements, regional media reports, funeral notices, and cemetery records — the Russian KIA, confirmed by name, is 227,700 as of June 19, 2026. This is the running total of individual Russian military deaths that Mediazona, BBC News Russian, and a team of volunteers have confirmed.

The West continues to lie about Russian losses while blithely ignoring Ukraine’s staggering losses… Ukrainian KIA are estimated to be in excess of 1.5 million. And they died for what?

Sacrificed to Western hegemonic ambitions.

https://sonar21.com/the-ny-times-lies-about-russian-and-ukrainian-casualties/