25,000 x 30=750,000

Of the VSU personnel as Putin describes it as irretrievable losses today. And then, of course, there are simply wounded. 30 is the number of months of SMO. 25,000 are "at least" of VSU losses which are... well, done and are never coming back.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing at least 50,000 service personnel a month, five times more than the Russian military, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Putin was speaking with reporters from international news agencies on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). “According to our estimates, the Ukrainian army loses about 50,000 people every month,” Putin said in response to a question, adding that the ratio of sanitary and irrecoverable casualties was “about 50-50.” While not specifying the number of Russian casualties, Putin said the number of irrecoverable losses was at least five times less than those incurred by Kiev's forces. There are currently 1,348 Russian servicemen held in Ukraine as prisoners of war, while 6,465 Ukrainian servicemen are in Russian captivity, the president revealed. Ukraine is capable of mobilizing about 30,000 troops a month and “there aren’t very many volunteers,” Putin explained.

Putin gives here the numbers of Russian MoD which, as I state ad nauseam for two years, provides ONLY numbers which it can objectively confirmed. The actual number of VSU's irretrievable losses can easily be multiplied by coefficient anywhere between 1.5 to 2.0. Let's take a lower 1.5.  750,000 x 1.5 = 1, 125,000 irretrievable losses of VSU. Add here sanitary losses of about the same--and you have 2.5 million people who have been lost and wounded in 404. That's the scale of SMO. There is not a single officer in NATO who can grasp, let alone handle such numbers as a lower estimate for possible NATO operations against Russia in real war. I will merely repeat:  

And NATO is falling behind technologically with every passing day since at least 2014.