• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    Ukraine’s population is about 40M. Russia’s is 143M. Still a big difference, but not an order of magnitude different.

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      7 days ago

      According to your stats, by population Russia is over 3x the size of Ukraine. According to land mass Russia’s 17 million km² vs Ukraine’s .6 million km² is 28x larger.

      Regardless of the metric, it’s a big difference.