For anyone who also doesn’t know what a battalion is, Wikipedia says
“A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers.[1] Commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into several companies, each typically commanded by a major or a captain. The typical battalion is built from three operational companies, one weapons company and one headquarters company. In some countries, battalions are exclusively infantry, while in others battalions are unit-level organizations.”
Soviet-style battalions are half that size though. They usually get augmented with more hardware and are then used as independent units, in what the Russians call a Battalion Tactical Group.
If they lost a battalion, that’s 500-600 people, if they lost the whole BTG, it’s 700-800.
Losing that many people in 2 days is impressive though. What a meatgrinder.