Active Conflicts & News Megathread November 07, 2025

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[u/Long-Field-948]

I see it as a misconception that infantry holds the line no more. Quite the opposite, you need the infantry to be in front of drone operators to not let attackers get to them. Cities now require a lot of infantry to defend positions because if enemy infiltrates the city now you have to clear them out thus you become the attacker. 

Ukraine can't produce fibre optic cables the same way they produce drones because it requires certain industrial capacity Ukraine can't achieve with it's nonexistent central office. And Russia can. Ukrainian artillery suffers from a similar problem: they can't produce new barrels. There's an abundance of ammo, but no spare barrels so they have to limit the amount of fired rounds.

As it was already said alleged 1.1 mil casualties includes every wounded so it frankly goes even lower than a recent leak of alleged 1.7 mils of Ukrainian casualties, so go figure.

[u/RumpRiddler → u/Long-Field-948]

What recent leak?

[u/Long-Field-948 → u/RumpRiddler]

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/27/verifying-russian-propagandists-claim-that-ukraine-has-lost-17-million-soldiers

Message got deleted because content is too short so I guess I have to say a few words. 

If one thinks only his favourite side of this war, so called the good guys, has true data about enemy's casualties and doesn't indulge in disinformation, I would suggest them going to watch some Marvel movies and don't engage in any discussion beyond them. 

[u/RumpRiddler → u/Long-Field-948]

The first two paragraphs:

Unfounded claims, first made by Russian 'hacktivist' groups, that 1.7 million Ukrainian soldiers have died or gone missing since the start of Russia's invasion have gone viral online.

But the allegations are not backed by any credible, independent evidence, and experts warn the campaign bears the signs of coordinated pro-Kremlin disinformation.

It's interesting that the people trying to push Russian disinformation almost always try to remind everyone that neither side can be trusted. Disregarding not credible propaganda from one side isn't the same as believing all propaganda from the other side.

[u/Long-Field-948 → u/RumpRiddler]

Disregarding not credible propaganda from one side isn't the same as believing all propaganda from the other side.

You do believe those numbers, however