Russians have always treated soldiers as expendable whether czars commies and now Putin are in charge.
Meanwhile, Kiev has been getting pummeled by cheap ( $5K- some sources quote as low as $1K apiece) the cheaper ones presumably the “ dummy”
(decoy) Iranian kamikazee Drones. 200,000 reportedly sold to Russia.
Much video on non western news of soldiers and civilians by the hundreds using rifles trying to take them down. All over Ukraine. There is no defense against these cheap drone swarms.
Some defense experts state the Iranian models are inexpensive copies of the Russian Geranium Kalishnakov drones. The Russians sold the Iranians the initial copyright manufacturing rights years ago and they engineered them to be ultra cheap and easy to manufacture in huge numbers. Iran has long been known to have developed superior drone swarm tactics.
We shall see, of the estimated 4-7000 unleashed on Ukraine in the past few days, I am sure some will be recovered and examined.
I find it amusing NATO is sending billions of equipment to the Ukies, but outrage is expressed when Iran sends a fraction to Russia….and yes, those cheap Iranian drones are performing quite well, especially in swarm mode.