All this is working under the assumption that Russia is fielding it’s best equipment and it’s best people I think the opposite is true. It’s saving its best equipment and it’s best people for the war with the West that it knows is gonna come
Russia’s best professional soldiers refused to go to Ukraine: right of refusal: Ukraine is a ‘special military operation’ not a declared “war.”
1- Hundreds of Russian soldiers have deserted or refused to fight in Ukraine, compounding major losses in the war, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-of-russian-soldiers-fled-refused-to-fight-ukraine-report-2022-6
2- ‘They were furious’: the Russian soldiers refusing to fight in Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/they-were-furious-the-russian-soldiers-refusing-to-fight-in-ukraine