Reddit's visit to the Ukraine is not going so well

Honestly they probably just throw a gun into every free hand they can.

That's what they've started doing a little while back, and what makes me suspect Zelensky is not planning to win the war anymore. A lot of that weaponry has allegedly already coagulated in the hands of organized crime and other gangbangers. They are gonna be a massive pain in the butt for whoever owns Ukraine by the end of this, for decades probably.

Russia's army has shrunk dramatically over the last several years as they hoped to have smaller but more competent force. Let's see what the glowies say in the CIA World Factbook, since you can unironically trust them more about this stuff than anyone else:

information varies; approximately 850,000 total active duty troops (300,000 Ground Troops; 40,000 Airborne Troops; 150,000 Navy; 160,000 Aerospace Forces; 70,000 Strategic Rocket Forces; approximately 20,000 special operations forces; approximately 100,000 other uniformed personnel (command and control, cyber, support, logistics, security, etc.); estimated 200-250,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2021)

So this is maybe about 400,000 ground troops plus about 250,000 MVD gendarmes/thugs. And they have a lot of other responsibilities. They have to pose a credible threat to fight another war with Georgia, be ready to go into Central Asia to prop up their clients, patrol all the borders of a huge country, and beat down all the opposition from Putin's real and imagined opponents inside the country.