Yeah, those numbers are questionable. You've gotta factor in the propaganda value in all of this too, neither side's all that open with everything. Ukraine was touting they've captured 200 Russians in Kursk, skip forward to now and Ukraine's saying 177 Ukrainians have died in Russian custody, meaning if 177 *died*, Russia took a shitload more Ukrainians total than 200.
As for the Nordstream, yeah, kinda figured from the start it was the U.S. and/or UK. Didn't some German general or colonel basically suggest that indirectly not long after? Not outright admitting it but kinda inferring it and expressing it openly? Can't recall the specifics of that story.
Spitfire, you *really* don't want former-U.S.-fleet F-16s striking Russians inside Russia. It sounds great, but trust me, you don't want it to start rolling that ball, it leads nowhere good. Intercepting Rooskie incomings is one thing, cool, but there's good reason they don't want to take that further.