I seriously doubt Ukrainian data, especially considering that they never had the chance to count anything in Mariupol. This one whole city was the hottest point of clash and there were many, very many civilians who got in-between clashing sides just because they had no chance to evacuate safely for the most part.
Let’s not forget civilian casualties too. No matter how careful you are (and nazis are clearly not) civilians will get blown up on mines, die of diseases and lack of basic goods such as medicine and food. We won’t know how many actually were lost there for a long time. Probably a lot more than the whole population of Donbass.
Holy-moly. That sounds like me trying to be officer. In a fucking Arma unit, not in real life. That poor guy literally got the worst shit. What’s more, nazis will most likely blame their own poor fellas like this guy for their losses and some of the officers and soldiers will definitely get rolled Reich-style.
That’s without including stuff that certain people (including our red non-partisan comrades) and more or less independeny organisations bring there just to help out people. There’s many intricacies about all that. For example, soldiers from Donetsk are basically militia and some comrades are trying to help them with necessary tools and even gear, because those are to be bought personally by soldiers themselves mostly and they have no access to that kind of stuff. Most needed replacement of military clothing and shoes because after years in the trenches stuff gets worn and not so usable.
Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder when they got their hands on it…