Conscripts..
..on both sides there will of-course be the issue of "replacements" esp. when those doing the replacing are conscripted (or in Russia's case recently conscripted), raw troops..I am right in presuming that the Ukrainian army had been made up of professional soldiers before this aren't I? There is a direct correlation between level of training & tactics employed (witness the Somme), and we should expect casualties during the "deep" phase of this war to be horrendous for this very reason (those that survived having been trained in and by combat). How much is known about the tactics? Journalism, of-course, having been strangled since the outset.
Nb. He! He!
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