© APFuneral workers down the coffin with Ukrainian soldier Andrii Husak aka Lytsar of 47th brigade during a funeral ceremony in Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 11, 2023
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published an article describing levels of mass injury among Ukrainian troops that are horrendous.
The article claimed that 50,000 or more Ukrainians have become amputees, citing data from Germany's Ottobock, the world's largest prosthetics manufacturer. As the article explains, this would put the level of amputations in the Ukraine war on par with those of major combatants in the First World War.
The article reports, "67,000 Germans and 41,000 Britons had to have amputations during the course of World War I, when the procedure was often the only one available to prevent death."
Comment: Indeed, experts, as well as inferences from the available data, give estimates of well over 200,000 Ukrainian dead: 'More than 280,000 dead': Estimate of Ukraine's military losses calculated using published obituaries