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This is the most insane meat-wave yet, losing 1380 personnel, but only 1 tank! Apparently very little equipment for the Russian soldiers to support their offensive.
Allegedly the Ukrainians have stopped Russian progress in the Donetsk region towards Pokrovsk.
And 9 Russian attacks in Kherson have been averted yesterday.
Hopefully it's the Ukrainian defense strategy that's beginning to pay off, where Ukraine has build strength while the Russian continued their offensives exhausting themselves.
This combined with more air defense like the Iris-T from Germany, and Russia running low on missiles, will hopefully improve conditions in Ukraine.
That's what I've been following too. And additionally, based on quick'n'rough estimation from wikipedia numbers, artillery reserves are pretty much depleted too, so Russia is fighting on what ever soviet era relics they can refurbish and what they can manufacture/buy. I don't think they'll have short of ammunition any time soon, but diminishing numbers of barrels should start to show up on these statistics 'in the near future', whenever that might be.
The ammunition gap is down to 1:2 or 1:2.5 in favour of Russia according to Syrskyi. That is down from 1:5 at the start of this year.
And, just to clarify for those who didn't click the link, that's gap in usage. So Russia still shoots twice as many shells than Ukraine, but it's getting closer. Article doesn't mention if that's because Ukraine has more shells available or if Russia shoots less, I'd guess it's because of both.