- Russian forces seized the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka earlier this month but paid a heavy price.
- The ISW said the number of Russian fatalities likely exceeds those killed in the Soviet-Afghan war.
- Russia has often used costly “human wave” tactics to achieve its military objectives in Ukraine.
Good thing the Kremlin rules over a country with a serious demographic problem and most citizens oppose conscription.
There’s a reason people from other countries in Russian uniforms are showing up dead in Ukrainian mud.
Sure, same reason DPR and LPR volunteers/voluntold bore the brunt of early war offensives. They are not actual Russians, and not MOD so their deaths do not count. After them, Russian minorities from the outer regions, Neither do foreign fighters. They are the current iteration of the prison battalions.