Russia has claimed calling up 100,000 and then 300,000 men.
Is it your belief they did that because they lost only 20,000?
Yes
The mobilization ( mostly veterans but also volunteers) was for an expanded offensive operation. Everytime NATO escalates, the scope of the SMO gets larger. Longer range weapons that attack into Russia, will require them to neutralize more of Ukraine.
It has taken 6 months to train the mobilized men
About 150,000 are ready have not (yet) been deployed in Ukraine
Many may be among the large force now joint exercising with Belarus
But Russian OPSEC is good, and our intel is bad or intentionally used for political messaging…so no one outside Russia knows the next part of the plan
In no way is Russia acting like it has sustained 200,000 dead
The Russian people reportedly 80% back Putin, and some of his dissenters
think he is too soft and going too slow
The slow pace of Russian ops has been multifold, but one major reason was to spare Russian troop casualties. ( others, to spare civilians, to spare infrastructure needed to rebuild, and because a war of attrition strategy was chosen to grind down the UKA. As long as they send troops to the east to die, Russia does not have to move west…..though they are now moving in Donetsk and Luhansk, to secure those populations)
Every military experienced non-politicized source I respect, puts estimated RU losses at about 1:8 compared to the Ukes. So 20-30k range