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Frontline report: Ukraine’s elite brigade decimates half Russian battalion in single day
(euromaidanpress.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2025
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Decimates half? So they destroyed 5%?
300 to 400 soldiers.
Typical Russian battalion is 600 to 800.
The word 'decimates' means to eliminate 10%. So if used correctly, it means that 30 to 40 Russians were killed. The word is hardly ever used correctly.
That may have been the original definition, but words evolve. One of the definitions from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘to cause great destruction or harm to’. So it is used correctly by modern definitions.
Let's still be considerate to those time traveling from the Roman Empire.