That echos what I’m reading outside of the MSM.
Russia is using the WW II tactics of bleeding the enemy with waves of Russians.
Hey, it worked at Stalingrad!
I find that very disturbing--for Russia, because demographically, they are in tatters. On average, since the 1990s most Russians are having one kid per family. Lose one in war and that's it.
No parent wants to outlive their kids, especially if there is only one.
No, if I was a Russia who really cared about Russia, I'd try to conserve my troops lives by using more fire and air power--including tactical nukes.
Human wave combat is extremely costly to a nation/people unless you have a huge surplus of men. They don't.