Let me make things simple for you then. If someone starts with £10 and spends £2 a day it would take them five days to end up with £0. If they are adding a £1 each day to compensate for the loss of £2 a day then they are still losing £1 a day and it would take them ten days to reach £0. But they would still reach £0. It really isn't difficult to understand when you apply Year 4 maths to the problem?
You seem to be making the mistake that Putin values Russian & Russian soldiers lives and that Russian values are the same as those of the West If you look at the history of Russia and the Soviet Union you will see that Russian lives are very expendable.
I know exactly what the Russians/USSR are like when it comes to the concern of their troops, They are nothing but cannon fodder to those in charge. Other than WW2 when the USSR were fighting their brutal war of anialation with the Nazis the Russian people will have a say in how this plays out, All the propaganda in the world will not stop a small trickle turning into a wave of discontent about losses, Especially those that were conscripted when only a year ago this "Special Military Operation" was just a news story, Now it will be affecting nearly every family in Russia. You only have to go back to the USSR campaign in Afghanistan of the 1980's to see how the Mothers of soldiers did put real pressure on the Kremlin.
Even if Russia has unlimited manpower that they could and would throw into the fight (and for the reasons that DB9 says I don't believe that) you still seem unwilling to factor in that soldiers require equipment to fight with. Do you at least accept the basic proposition that, if equipment is being lost at a faster rate than it is being replenished, there will eventually be no tools with which to fight?
The old addage of if you say something enough times, Even if it is a lie then it becomes the "Truth"“My truth“ as is said these days.Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was laughed at in Delhi after saying the Ukraine war was "launched against us". So now the Russian narrative is Ukraine started this war.
Hard to believe really.According to the UK Defence Ministry, Russian reservists called up to fight in Ukraine are using shovels because of a shortage of ammunition.
Ukraine war: Russian reservists fighting with shovels - UK defence ministry
Troops are likely engaging in hand-to-hand combat in Ukraine, Britain's defence ministry says.www.bbc.co.uk
I know its only a film but at the start of Enemy At the Gates, That showed how Soviet conscripts were treated in WW2 at Stalingrad, Perhaps it was more truth than fiction? Also watching a documentary this morning it said 360k Soviet troops were killed or wounded in the battle for Berlin alone.