Although there's disagreement on the number of Russians and Ukrainians who have lost their lives in Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine, there's general agreement that Ukrainian losses are about one third as many as Russian losses.
There are several possible reasons for this discrepancy.
The most obvious one is that Russia is losing the war, so it makes sense that more Russians will have died than Ukrainians. But the magnitude of Russian losses also has something to do with t...
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Already a member? Login hereAlexander Motyl is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 and Ukraine vs Russia: Revolution, Democracy, and War.
Alexander Motyl is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 and Ukraine vs Russia: Revolution, Democracy, and War.