Anyone interested can pull up the Reality. Ukrainian General Biletsky in his recent interview has stated losses are extremely high, arms and ammunition is running out….contrary to the western MSM narrative.
His admission also highlights Russia’s huge manufacturing base, the Russian army suffers no such shortages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SWlybXtJfo
“ Front-line situation is dire: high casualties and unsustainably high desertion rates.
Gen. Cerski (noted Sept 8) acknowledged Ukraine faces roughly a threefold disadvantage in forces/resources in key sectors.
Ukraine struggles to man the front — manpower is in “terminal decline” while Russia is reportedly achieving net monthly gains.
Leaders are pinning hopes on technological fixes (UAVs, ground robots, drones) to substitute for missing personnel.
The speaker argues quantity matters: even if Ukraine narrows some technological gaps, Russia’s greater production capacity and redundancy make it hard to match at scale.
Innovations escalate quickly on both sides; any tactical advantage is rapidly mirrored, so sustained technological superiority is unlikely.
Continued Western funding and weapons shipments may keep Ukraine fighting, but relying on a late “miracle” weapon is unrealistic.
The speaker labels current Western/European policies immoral because they willingly sacrifice Ukrainian manpower on the slim hope of a turnaround.
One-sentence takeaway: The front-line reality — severe manpower shortfalls, steady Russian gains, and only marginal technological offsets — makes a decisive Ukrainian recovery unlikely without unsustainable external miracles, making continued policies that rely on such miracles morally questionable.”
Kyiv in 3 days!
Russia's numerical superiority has so far failed to translate into meaningful gains. The big advance with light infantry north of Pokrovsk was unable to be supplied and reinforced and has been crushed by the UA, which has now actually taken back more territory past the original Russian starting point for that advance.
To put it bluntly, a 3:1 advantage for the Russians is insufficient. What advances have taken place lately are light infantry or infiltration units. The Ukrainians are now allowing them to advance while hammering them with drones and waiting for Russia to attempt to send heavier units which are then hammered by drones and artillery and the original light infantry is mopped up.
This tactic takes advantage of the Russian leadership's pressure on local commanders to advance at all costs and baits them into making advances that cannot be supported. The net result is even higher losses in men and equipment for the RA.