"Having said that I believe Russia's losses are also also immense and that some of the commentators we listen to such as Scott Ritter are seriously underestimating them. "
Well, as this is primarily an artillery war, it's axiomatic that there has to be a direct correlation between the number of artillery shells fired and the number of casualties incurred on both sides.
The Russians are by all accounts sending over more than five times the number of shells...which suggests that the casualty rate is 1 Russian to at least 5 Ukranians.
Any vagaries such as proposed Ukrainian "better targetting" due to using extensive NATO surveillance could be cancelled by the ratio of missile & drone use: something again in Russia's favour.
of course 5 to 1 is a low baseline estimate: some say the artillery fire ratio is about 10-1 in Russias favour.
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