This also was the strategy of the Germans during the Battle of Verdun. I don’t know a lot about the various battles of WWI, but this one sticks in my mind. The French would supply new waves of Frenchmen into the town, only to be repeatedly obliterated by German artillery.
Russia is getting toasted and are concentrating here do get a PR victory. Problem is, it hasn’t happened yet.
...to Russia with Love...cause ya can’t make war...anymore.