For instance I saw that many Russian generals had been killed during the war. I wondered how many Ukrainian generals had been killed over the same period.
Still can't figure it out. Lots and lots of articles about dead Russian generals.
There's got to be some way where the search engine doesn't second guess you. You can never find the answer to something adjacent to a popular question with the current state of things.
Ukraine has repeatedly asserted that the HQs of all their major units are intact and as far as I know there have been no announcements of any Ukrainian generals killed and as far as I see even Russian media have not contested that. With some searching on the Russian internet, I find some assertions in Russian social media from early March that Lt Gen Юрій Содоль commanding the Ukraine Marines was killed, but not anything conclusive. So the number seems to be 0, or perhaps 1. And IMHO that isn't surprising, it's quite normal to fight major wars without many generals KIA, it is very surprising that Russia lost so many of them.
Even on colonel level the losses seem to be small - I think that this https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-cris... this was the first Ukrainian ground force colonel KIA that I recall, there was at least one air force colonel before that.
Ukraine has better signals security so we don’t know.
The other thing is that Russia is operating WW2 style. It’s a top down system where the lower level people have no autonomy. American colonels and generals die in helicopter shoot downs and accidents. Russian generals get assassinated on the front screaming at soldiers to move trucks, etc.
From google's point of view, it's not second guessing you. It just associates words it decides are similar. You'd probably accept results for "dead generals", "killed generals", or "killed commanders". To google, dead = killed, generals = commanders, Russian = Ukranian, and moon = mars. It will expand the meanings of words until it has a page full of results and ads to show you.
Still can't figure it out. Lots and lots of articles about dead Russian generals.
There's got to be some way where the search engine doesn't second guess you. You can never find the answer to something adjacent to a popular question with the current state of things.