Trying to capture the Donbas, the Russians do not count the losses in manpower.

In the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Russian troops are trying to attack mostly with artillery and manpower. They protect armored vehicles for some reason: either they don’t have enough, or they are in no hurry to bring it into battle... A map showing the present-day definition of the Donbas within Ukraine...By Goran_tek-en, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116044145...