I'm not going to convince anybody about something like this. Both sides publish their numbers... but there is no "consistency" when the "2nd largest military power" sent almost 200k troops into a country like Ukraine and they had to, "following their statemets", mobilize 300k civilians, recruit wagners in prisons, and even send people from other countries...
I think we want to know the reallity, despite supporting one side or the other... I don't want to do whisful thinking with such thing.
Everybody here knows loses from both sides are big, but we can't trust on any "official" source, only independent ones, and Oryx can give us an aproximate idea, as it relies on **visual confirmed** loses, not Shoygu mouth. I won't trust on any other source that doesn't provide proofs for fitting into my wishes.
There are thousands of videos of RU casualities over internet, but what's the point of posting them here without a proper context or to support a statement?
Who is asking about negotiations for months? Who had to retreat from 5 fronts since the start of the invasion? Who is launching hundreds of cruise missiles every week against civil infrastructure in the verge of the winter? Who is asking for equipment to countries like Iran or North Korea? Does Russia have air dominance over UKR skies? Who is sending mobiks to the new "gulag" at tank factories for example? Retrofiting T-62 tanks?
Gas prices are a bit high but nothing comparable to what RU propaganda is saying:
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RU can make some significant offensive, for sure, but war is not affecting West at all, at least in my country, right now the inflation is lowering every month and the main problem is the beer raised from 2€ to 3€ and there is no enough waiters for bars, they had to raise the salaries to recruit them, and of course, raising beer prices again.
What's happening right now is West countries sending new equipment, supplies, ammo, money, medicines, winter cloths, almost every day coordinated by US for not reaching a point of mayor scalation... It is safe to say time is running against RU despite the efforts of their propaganda.
I don't know if something changed a lot, but I've seen docens of videos of RU trenches, full of waste, with no water drains, lack of tools or basic equipment, and that is consistent with troops not being motivated enough on attacking an inocent country, obvious, that is something in the winter would make a huge difference.
Russian scoundrels say that an unknown munition exploded at an oil depot in Bryansk.
For now, take a look at the hot pictures from the swamps. It definitely deserves your 
