Global Newssince the beginning of this "3 day operation" they've lost 1.4 million soldiers. They have an estimated population of like 140million. They can throw a few more million at this thing and likely will. I just don't feel the typical ruskie tactic of "throwing enough bodies at something until it goes away" is going to work this time. I mean it clearly isn't working.
They can absolutely not afford to throw a few million more into this, which is why they're already farming out to foreign armies and mercenaries.
Population is not evenly distributed in military participation, it's weighted very heavily towards the age and class demographics that you most need to effect economic growth (that is to say, young and working-class). Losing 1.4 million young citizens is already a huge hit to their economic and social prospects.
They're going to turn the aging populace crisis they're already in into a full-blown population collapse in some areas, and their social structures around population movement can amplify this impact (basically, most Russian people do not tend to move around geographically, so population declines in neighboring regions aren't counteracted by diffusion as easily).
The literal definition of “war of attrition”
I would take those numbers with a grain of salt but russia the agressor is definitely struggling
