In October, around 25,000 Russian soldiers were confirmed killed on video, with an additional 2,000–3,000 estimated casualties not captured on camera—the highest monthly toll since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during a meeting with press on November 7.

Most of the losses occurred on the Pokrovsk front, where Russian forces launched 220 assaults in recent days, using heavy equipment.

This is past ‘pyrrhic victory’ territory and solidly into ‘existential loss’ territory. Forget the land, focus on the lives, a military empire is dying in Pokrovsk, and it is dying quickly. The logistical and manpower losses are too great to maintain any degree of professionalism and that process of hollowing out snowballs.

Russia is shifting from a maximally spatially diffuse offensive to focused pushes with armor (in my opinion this is a NECESSARY reaction to losing a decisive advantage in artillery) and it is failing spectacularly.

Losing ~1000 soldiers a day over a massive frontline is one thing, losing that many in one area of operations is entirely another, the focused brutality and futility eats away at every part of the Russian war machine. This severe incompetence cannot be unseen by all involved, it is a torpedo to the Russian war effort everywhere it touches it.