Russia is a vast country, it is very difficult to organize an effective reserve system.
Complicating this is the decentralized nature and the corruption of the military. They don’t want to spend money on remote reserve training centers and supplies. They don’t even supply conscripts well.
US intelligence has admitted they make chit up on a daily basis...why is this any different?
War casualties have caused the fall of empires in this part of the world. WWI caused the end of Habsburg and Romanov dynasties. First usually comes the civil disobedience, in WWI the protesters burnt the records for conscription. There was already some disobedience in Belarus with workers sabotaging the trains. Expect more to follow as more body bags come home.
Morale
Morale of your troops is as important as having adequate supplies and good leadership. For the Russian Army to suffer this type of casualty and the loss of so much equipment can not help but affect troop morale, and not in a good way.
The primary goal of warfare is not to kill (or wound) the enemy but to break their will to fight. Once they no longer want to fight they lose.
The smart thing for the Russians to do is pull their troops back to a secure and defensive area and begin to rebuild their forces.
Allow them time to rest and re-group, get replacements, and supplies.
The smart thing for the Ukraines is not to give them time to rest and regroup.
“the loss of trained troops will impair military operations and eventually have a political effect.”
They didn’t let se any trained troops, they lost a bunch of 18 year old kids from rural Russia. They still have their killer hoard from Chechnya and Syria.
I’ll post this interesting take on Russia here:
https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/
Boy that’s a lot of sad & mad Moms, daughters and wives!
Enough for the ruskies to say enough?
We’ll see...
My guess is that many Russian battalions used in the initial invasion have reached the 40% casualty rate at which units begin to find ways to avoid offensive operations. I read yesterday that the Russians are taking some depleted units and recombining them with others, which won't help. There's also speculation that the attack on a Russian fuel depot a few days ago was actually carried out by Russian officers to conceal theft of fuel.
If the Russians simply throw new units together using even more raw recruits and worse equipment I do not expect their performance to improve, although if they throw enough mass together they may advance to try to cut off Ukrainian salients in the east. Even then, I strongly suspect they will advance only to have supply lines cut and be slowly ground down by Ukrainians as they have been.
This propaganda designed to keep the war goal. The goal is to turn what's left of Ukraine into Palestine and use it as a vehicle for perpetual insurgency against Russia. The loss or quality of the life the people there doesn't matter.
This war wouldn't be occurring if we hadn't fomented a revolution that caused an eight-year civil war in Ukraine and then encouraged the Ukrainians to reject the Minsk Agreement would have ended the war in Donbass.
The number of wounded is more like four times the number killed, not two times; plus you need soldiers to get the wounded to the rear for treatment.