This will be taking an extraordinary toll on Russia, especially as evidence now seems to be emerging that Moscow has been sending poorly trained and poorly armed soldiers to hold the front line against Ukraine's advances. Meanwhile, there's increasing talk that Russia may now be planning a major offensive for the spring, following a partial mobilization that saw a further 300,000 troops added to the ranks of the Russian armed forces. There are fears that an even larger call up may soon be launched. Given that Russia now seems happy to feed its troops into the front line, even with little or no training, the death toll in this war could rise dramatically, thus speeding the calls for efforts to end the bloodshed. Then there's the wider devastation that's been caused, as well as the complete destruction of cities like Mariupol, countless towns and villages have been partly or completely destroyed. Altogether, it's estimated that the cost of reconstruction is now well over $600 billion, an amount that will inevitably continue to rise. If one then factors in the wider effects of the war, including the significant increases in international food and fuel prices, which has had a harmful effect on hundreds of millions of people in poor and developing countries. It's. Unsurprising that there have been widespread calls for the war to stop and for talks to start, including from major countries like India and China.
Russia started with 70k combat troops, but apparently they lost all those plus over 30k support troops and apparently, reservists have little to no training. How come the Russians didn’t collapse? O yeah, they got 'stopped' from taking kivv, as if that was ever the objective, or they even tried, or you can detail one single attack by the Ukrainians trying to stop them.