Obviously assaulting a defensive position is going to increase your casulties, but of course this has happened on both sides. My impression is that the Russians have been quite canny about this in Avdiivca and appear to have used their advantages to good effect. On that I recall reading reports from Ukrainian (Azov)reinforcements of the futility involved because there were effectively no actual defences left to man: quite a startling admission considering the years of Labour the Ukrainians had put into fortifying the site.
What's true is that we are all playing armchair generals or rather statisticians without data and aside from the artillery count, its all mere surmise.
-The intuitive "winning side" ready-reckoner I tend to use is to take the claims of the Ukrainian government and then reverse the numbers.
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