“Dead everywhere, everything is broken”: The consequences of “meat assaults” for Putin’s army

The Russian invader complained about Russia’s losses in the Donetsk region, according to Obozrevatel media outlet. He took pictures of the bodies of the eliminated occupiers lying in a landing in one of the directions, adding that no one was taking them away.
Obozrevatel says that the Russian also showed the destroyed Russian equipment and ruins that the war brought to our land by Russia had turned the Ukrainian settlement into. Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky drew attention to the video “excursion” conducted by the invader .
“A Russian soldier who ended up on the front lines is filming the aftermath of the meat assaults in Donbas. Around him are burnt-out equipment and the dead bodies of Russian soldiers that no one is evacuating,” he captioned the 18+ footage .
In the video, the occupier walks first along the road and then through a forest strip. The lens of his phone’s camera captures shell craters, broken and burned Russian equipment, as well as the corpses of the occupiers or their parts.
“200s”, “300s” – shit, all over the place… The equipment is all fucked up… “Two hundred” are lying around everywhere, they can’t really stand it, nah… They’re lying in pieces,” he laments.The author of the video expresses his emotions with a small “assortment” of swear words, into the stream of which censored words are occasionally inserted – such as the statement “body armor and helmets are lying everywhere” and “there was an arrival.”
Later, a group of occupiers, together with the author of the video, moves to the residential sector of the settlement. It is not known exactly where the video was shot, but judging by the footage, this settlement, like many others in Ukraine, no longer exists. Instead of private and apartment buildings, only ruins remain. The ground is littered with tree fragments and construction debris. So, Russia can add another settlement to the list of settlements “liberated” from life, which remained only as a dot on the map.
Russian forces are suffering heavy casualties on the battlefield, posing a threat to further military operations. The mood among the ultra-nationalist community of military bloggers is deteriorating due to infantry-led "meat assaults" and ineffective tactics of the Russian command. ISW has noted signs that the Russian military is finding it increasingly difficult to recruit enough soldiers to backfill its losses on the battlefield. Russian leader Vladimir Putin acknowledged the ongoing labour shortage and reliance on migrants to meet this challenge during his speech at the Valdai Club on 7 September. ISW also notes that Russia is forcing migrants to join the military