@Terry @All_Ogre This just isn't possible.
Lets do some very simple math.
Ukraine
2022 250k troops (low quality)
2026 250k troops (conscripts)
(4 years x fighting a far better trained, equipped military, they've gone through 2 or 3 full armies in that 4 years)
Ukrainians admit they are low on men, since early 2025
Ukraine has lost over a million men dead and maimed.
The fighting in Bahkmut alone was costing the Ukrainians prolly 10k men a week. It was so bad that the Ukrainians force conscripted the engineers and construction workers who had built reinforcements behind bahkmut during the battle.
They have repeated this fixed position suicide ever since.
Remember Kherson 2022? the Russian withdrawal there was orderly, got all their gear and men out, why? because the west north and south sides were Ukrainian held, so they retreated, rightly so as they were a salient with a river separating them from reinforcements and supplies
Ukr on the other hand as we see repeatedly, do not allow their men to retreat from hopeless situations because Zelensky doesn't allow it or allow it in time for international media reasons.
The likely real numbers are
around 200k Russian casualties dead and maimed
around 1.2 million Ukrainians dead and maimed