(#5281) Ukraine keeps making advances on the front line with minimal troop loss

      If there is one tell on this Russian invasion of Ukraine you can notice it is that the Ukrainians value each of their soldiers lives. Whereas the Russians do not. Russia throws their troops into battle with minimal artillery support. The Russians don't mind sending waves of soldiers to their deaths as long as they can show some progress on the battlefield. Unlike Ukraine which is very selective in how they deploy their infantry into battle. Ukraine is the example as to how to fight against an invader. They calculate success by small increments of territory regained against the loss of life to attain it. The Ukrainians have found that the value of life is greater than some portion of territory regained.
     The Russians on the other hand are willing to send their troops to death in order to crow about gaining meters of Ukrainian land. The contrast couldn't be more stark. While Russia held occupied Ukrainian territory they built defense systems designed to kill and maim innumerable Ukrainian soldiers. But the Ukrainians know this and would not commit to assaults that harmed their troops unnecessarily. So the much vaunted Ukrainian counter offensive has been a slow crawl instead of a sprint through Russian defenses. Each day Ukraine moves a little closer to the Russian lines and pushes the Russians back. Because Ukraine knows that military strategy instead of foolishly rushing in is the key to success.
     Ukraine has yet to utilize the largest contingent of their reserves because their front line troops are doing the job of finding openings from which Ukraine can exploit. Once the process of creating an opening occurs Ukraine will then and only then be able to spill into the opening with the confidence that they will overrun and rout the Russian defenses in the occupied Ukrainian territories. This slow crawl by the Ukrainian high command is exactly what was needed given the Russian defenses. It also preserves lives on the Ukrainian side by not being caught up into traps the Russians may have set. Ukraine is exemplary in their strategy and soon that strategy will start to pay off with an opening Ukraine will exploit to the detriment of the Russian horde!