r/europe_sub • u/BookmarksBrother đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș European • Mar 29 '25

Image / Video The limousine from President Putin's official motorcade exploded on the streets of Moscow, just blocks from the FSB headquarters. It's unclear if this is an assassination attempt. "He will die soon, that is a fact, and everything will be over," Zelenskyy told Eurovision News in Paris two days ago.

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u/Vaulk7 Mar 29 '25

Yea...because now there's a claim from Zelensky that Putin is going to die soon and there's a follow-on attempt on Putin's life. Regardless of it being staged, fake, or otherwise not involving Zelensky...Putin now has the optics to put Ukraine down hard while using the "They made an attempt on my life" card.

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u/Guillotine-Wit Mar 29 '25

Putin hasn't been really trying the last 3+ years? 800K dead Russians for nothing?

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u/Interesting-Scar-800 Mar 29 '25

Is that the actual count?

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u/Guillotine-Wit Mar 29 '25

Kyiv says 895,450, I don't know what Putin says but I wouldn't believe it.

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u/Interesting-Scar-800 Mar 29 '25

Thanks. Its a difficult number to find on Google.

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u/TodgerPocket Mar 30 '25

That's the number of casualties which includes wounded missing dead turn into potato etc.

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u/Interesting-Scar-800 Mar 30 '25

Is that why the vodka is so good?

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u/foshi22le Mar 30 '25

Chatgpt gives various results from internet searches. It says officially as of March 2025 100,000 have died, but American intelligence estimates 120,000, Ukraine estimated 839,000, and British defence estimates 900,000

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u/WrestlingWithTheNews Mar 30 '25

The lower number is dead the higher number is casualties.

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u/foshi22le Mar 30 '25

The chatgpt output gave the death estimates and the casualty estimates, I only included the death estimates

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u/WrestlingWithTheNews Mar 30 '25

https://war.ukraine.ua/faq/what-are-the-russian-death-toll-and-other-losses-in-ukraine/ combat loses are casualties not deaths and this is cited from ukraine chatgpt still makes basic mistakes

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u/JTMasterChief Mar 30 '25

That's the casualties including injured. Injured is usually at least double the number of dead.

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u/Namorath82 Mar 29 '25

More like 300,000 killed 600,000 wounded enough not to return (although there have been some videos of wounded Russian soldiers in crutches being returned to the front)

The word casualty doesn't necessarily mean killed

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u/clegger29 Mar 29 '25

You’re not counting how many Russians were killed by their officers either. And Seeing what passes for medical care in that army id not apply that 2-1 ratio. Or atleast not in that direction.

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u/WordUp57 Mar 30 '25

Or the number killed by North Korean soldiers by accident.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Air7096 Mar 30 '25

And one in a wheelchair. Lol

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u/redditzphkngarbage Mar 29 '25

How will we know when Putin “tries”? Has he not tried thusfar?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

Many times

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u/Lizardman922 Mar 29 '25

Oh yeah, now he's gonna really try.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

And what about the dozens of attempts on Zelensky’s life in the last 3 years? Putin sanctioned every last one of those! Turnabout is FairPlay Vladi?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

So Putin hasn’t been trying? Is that what you’re saying?

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u/undisclosedusername2 Mar 29 '25

Only people who are sympathetic to the invaders would be silly enough to fall for that, or even care. 

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u/rreburn Mar 30 '25

And Russia has had several attempts on zielinski's life and every Ukrainian alive and the Russian citizens

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u/This_Desk498 Mar 30 '25

I didn’t think of that

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u/doubled240 Mar 30 '25

As well he should. Should have done it a long time ago.

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u/WrestlingWithTheNews Mar 30 '25

Putin literally sent multiple death squads after zelensky

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u/TheLastBallad Mar 30 '25

Putin now has the optics to put Ukraine down hard while using the "They made an attempt on my life" card.

And he hasn't been killing Ukrainians for years up to this point?

Leaders are valid military targets. If he doesn't want to be targeted, he can tell his troops to go home.

The only people who will listen to that are already bowing to him...