Obviously also, the whole thing about attackers needing a many to one edge in numbers does not apply when infantry and artillery are being used in the manner your source describes.
“Obviously also, the whole thing about attackers needing a many to one edge in numbers does not apply when infantry and artillery are being used in the manner your source describes.”
First, Putin initially had no intention of making this an all out war so he never mobilized Russian forces. He only brought in 200,000 troops so he obviously had no intention of a full steam ahead clash. Obviously he NEVER had superior forces numbers.
Zelensky has claimed he has 750,000 troops, though experts say it was about 1/3 of that. But, whatever, it was more than Putin brought to the battle.
Putin’s battle plan had been to fight in a way that minimized Russian casualties. He did not want to have to take Russia into full mobilization. And his goals were never territorial gains initially anyway. He wanted to kill Ukraine’s military and their Nazis/nationalist troops. Remember, initially he did not even intend to stay in Ukraine and that only changed after Zelensky reneged on concessions made in Istanbul and Putin realized that NATO’s plan was to take out Putin/Russia. He reworked his plan and decided Russia would have to stay “forever.”
In early May I posted a video from a Russian soldier in Izium. He described the same scenario that today’s soldier did. 24/7 longer reaching artillery fire than the Ukrainians had and a resulting casualty ratio of 7 (U) to 1 (R)...saying casualties were rare except for the initial few days when they were 500 and that those commanders had been jailed and new tactics initiated. He said Putin’s orders were to hold back, advance slowly and limit Russian casualties.
It’s too bad that today’s soldier is right and that Ukraine is truly NOT keeping casualty statistics so the world will never know how many young men had their lives snuffed out by that evil, corrupt grifter.