Based on your statement “to my knowledge NV never ran out of soldiers—or the will.”
My takeawy from all this is: Ukraine will never run out of creative weapons—or the will. And Putin or whichever hard liner continues in power will never run out of the willingness to turn their non-Russian minority soldiers into meat. Until minority “Russians” and/or “true” Russians they also need to conscript start to rebel.
If the latest news out there that the average age of the Ukraine soldier fighting is in the early 40s, they WILL run out of soldiers before they run out of ‘will.’ As to whether that is true or not it’s anybody’s guess.
We are not getting the truth from our local twice-weekly spammer Zeepers and we are not getting the truth from the Russian side, either.
All I can say is that I am much more concerned about my government paying tax dollars by the billions to Ukraine with virtually no accounting while it COMPLETELY ignores the invasion by third world slugs on our Southern Border. And until that is remedied I see no purpose in supporting Ukraine.