Quote (Goomshill @ Jul 21 2023 12:54pm)
From what little we can parse through the fog of war, the general consensus seems to be that Ukraine attempted an armored counteroffensive mobilizing reserves and it failed miserably with heavy losses, so they abandoned trying to go over the top and instead have gone more for small tactical incursions with dismounted units and probing attacks with armor, both of which have incurred heavy losses anyway because they're just running into mine fields, artillery and drones, failing to break the first lines of a layered entrenched defender. Bakhmut seems like the most realistic target they could seize at this point. Russia is probably getting significantly higher casualties to the infantry attacks on trenches than the armor attacks that just stumbled pointlessly, but there's no way the numbers are extremely skewed against Ukraine, even moreso than the war up to this point.
Maybe its not as severe was WW1 charges into artillery and machine guns, but its not very far off either.
80% of the losses in this war are attributed to artillery. Russia has anywhere between 5:1 to 10:1 in artillery superiority.
These two figures alone should be enough to dispel any notion that somehow Russia is incurring heavier losses. At some point people need to critically think.