The ziggers have taken 700,000 casualties

I don't get what you mean, but I'm upmarseying you to indicate I know what DPICM means.

I could do a much longer write up on why this war is the way it is (I've been paying close attention to it because of how fricking sad it makes me due to my connection to the region) but the short of it is that the extremely transparent battlefield combined with highly accurate responses make concentrated attacks that have the initiative basically impossible and the number of people required to hold x amount of the frontline is smaller than ever. This is especially true for cities, which are basically fortresses at this point. This is especially especially true in a Ukraine-Russian conflict where both sides have some of the highest levels of AD in the world (Ukraine had AD than the rest of Europe (excluding Russia ofc) combined, and Russia is obviously Russia. (Ukraine generally received the largest proportional stockpile of Soviet military stuff because a lot of it was made in Ukraine, though they scrapped a lot higher percentage of stuff compared to Russia because they're poor they still had massive stockpiles)) What Russia has started to aim for is a bite and hold strategy where Russia does many small attacks repeatedly for years at a time. This comes after heavy bombing of enemy positions. When they reach urban centers of any density you can see the slow down (provided Ukraine's manpower in that specific sector isn't too low (a whole other discussion)) as they either go around and cut off supplies before attacking or just levelling it. What results is very small casualties as a result of the low manpower needed on the front (in comparison to the rear or industries).

We also have a bias because Ukraine has supplemented artillery with drones who we get footage from. By their own accounts artillery is far superior to attack drones, but they lack the industry to truly invest in it, and as a result retooling consumer drones is far easier for them. They then post this footage online which they use to fund themselves (the best drone groups seldom post their footage, as they actually get funding from the state). However, less than <10% of drone attacks do anything especially as they haven't adapted to EW like the Russians have with fiber optic wire controlled drones. Though we may see zigs die a whole lot more than ooks, it's likely a primarily result of methods, not actual numbers.

I was gonna go into the army (and hopefully get into the 101st) but I got my hip broken in a freak accident when I was... I think 15. So no, I don't ever claim to have served.