Quantity is a quality of its own. I’d say Ukraine is hanging on with advanced weaponry. It needs the mass to push Russian troop advances and repel their forces out of their country.
Anything else is keeping the status quo of roughly even wins and losses, which will never lead to victory in the next decade.
Russia claimed and held territory. Their military leadership doesn’t particularly value human lives in this conflict and hasn’t historically either. I have no doubt that they will continue the course suffering heavy human losses and eventually find some form of victory.
Ukraine needs more people if they want any hope of staving that eventuality off. The Russians have very different ideas of fighting a war of attrition.
Ukraine can’t win without Western troops.
It’s that simple.
Meh, doubt that. Russian incompetence has lead to far inferior efficiency of troops and tools of war. Any advantage they once held is gone.
Quantity is a quality of its own. I’d say Ukraine is hanging on with advanced weaponry. It needs the mass to push Russian troop advances and repel their forces out of their country.
Anything else is keeping the status quo of roughly even wins and losses, which will never lead to victory in the next decade.
I believe that in the entirety of 2023 Russia claimed another 518 km despite heavy military losses? Yeah, doesn’t look good for Russia.
Russia claimed and held territory. Their military leadership doesn’t particularly value human lives in this conflict and hasn’t historically either. I have no doubt that they will continue the course suffering heavy human losses and eventually find some form of victory.
Ukraine needs more people if they want any hope of staving that eventuality off. The Russians have very different ideas of fighting a war of attrition.
Ukraine needs ammo, not troops.
Human wave attacks (favoured by the Russians) are effective against opponents who have to ration their ammo, like arty rounds, due to scarcity.
If the defender has sufficient anno reserves, human wave attacks become very, very ineffective.