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[–]TheJamesRocket 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Only 6,000 dead but they still need to call up an additional 300,000 reservists? Sounds like propaganda.

The problem facing the Russians isn't that they have taken alot of casualties (they haven't, from all that we know), its that they literally don't have enough troops to hold a continuous frontline. They are spread very thin on the ground.

I'm willing to believe the Russians can hold their occupied territory, but no way are they at Wehrmacht levels of superiority.

The Ukrainians took 5 times as many casualties as the Russians did in their Izyum offensive, which the West trumpeted as a major victory. Alot of the soldiers involved in that operation were civilians with brief training; many of them were men in their 30s, which is not really a prime age for soldiers.