this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024

71 points (98.6% liked)

Ukraine

8285 readers

593 users here now

News and discussion related to Ukraine

*Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.

*No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

*Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

*Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human must be flagged NSFW

Donate to support Ukraine's Defense

Donate to support Humanitarian Aid

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lisko@sopuli.xyz

doo@sh.itjust.works

Burstar@sopuli.xyz

71

In push for more Ukraine troops, city of Moscow hikes pay for contract soldiers to $60,000 a year (www.reuters.com)

submitted 4 months ago by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The average life expectancy of Russian front-line troops who die is 4.5 months ($444/day).

The average life expectancy of Russian men born around 2000 is 60 years ($4.57/day*).

Data:

https://istories.media/stories/2023/09/21/ot-povestki-do-pokhoronki/

https://data.who.int/countries/643#hid-3fc0d

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

$2.74/day

Jesus Christ, I didn't expect it to be that bad. That's Africa shit, and these are the guys that did some of the colonising, rather than being subjected to it.

Edit: Because it's not. it works out to more like $15/day, if we trust official numbers. That must be a minimum you're using or something.

It varies massively by region, though, because some of those colonies are still inside.