>Wagner or not, the corpses are coming out of Russia’s pool of military aged males. And I doubt the defenders are suffering anywhere near the casualties that Wagner is suffering.
Well, the problem is that neither side is honest about the war, but from what I’ve seen Wagner is doing the heavy lifting in Soledad and Bahkmut. The Russians have withdrawn most of their troops to artillery service. The Ukrainians are losing troops precipitously, and I expect that in a week or so you’ll see the Russians feint a big defeat and then the second wave of Russian attack will begin.
I just want this war to end. Pointless death.
Hardly pointless for the Ukrainians.
And the Wagnerites were thrown in because of high casualties and reluctance to fight by the regular army. So if they run out of Wagnerites, I'm not sure the regular army will fight any better.