Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "How is the war going? — 27 June 2022" video.

@stream2watch If Russia has a stockpile of missiles from decades ago and is now fighting a major war, it would be strange not to use the old missiles. It doesn't prove they are running out of more modern alternatives.
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@tomk3732 Do we know for sure that one dropped on that mall? Or did the mall catch fire when the huge armaments repair factory next door was hit? Video footage appears to show bricks thrown from the explosion are from the armaments factory rather than the mall. If the mall contained a thousand people as Zelensky claims and was in fact hit by this missile, why are casualties so low? The official Ukrainian story seems suspect.
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What makes you think the Russians are taking heavy losses? It's the Russian side which has an overwhelming air and artillery advantage. Most losses on the Russian side seem to be DPR/LPR or auxiliary forces rather than the Russian army. Meanwhile some Ukrainian regular units are reporting that few of their pre-war members are still active due to casualties.
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@spacecanuk8316 Sure, Russia is trying hard to recruit. But get this - they're not even using conscripts or reserves. The Russian army is still fighting with volunteers. Compare that to Ukraine where they're drafting conscripts. Literally serving papers to guys on the street. I agree the Russian army took high losses in the first month of the year but there's little evidence they have been since. There are some failed river crossings but that's untypical of most of the fighting. You say that you can't replace professionals in a couple of months with guys of the same quality. This is an even bigger problem for Ukraine than for the Russian army. The Russians are rotating their units in and out of Ukraine giving them a chance to integrate replacements. Ukrainian units are stuck in the line for months without relief in some cases. They're the ones getting pounded by artillery and aviation. That's how the Russians just made their big advance and the Zolote encirclement - a Ukrainian regular unit retreated without orders after taking high casualties, leaving neighbouring the Zolote pocket to be surrounded.
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@spacecanuk8316 Yeah the Western media repeated NATO press releases saying they redeployed too quickly. Maybe it's true, maybe it's the usual propaganda. In any case, what's been happening for the last few months is there's no evidence the Russians have been taking heavy casualties. There's a lot of evidence the Ukrainians have been. The Ukrainians are getting badly beaten in the place where the fighting is heaviest. The Russians are taking thousands of prisoners, the Ukrainians are taking very few. Not saying it's good or bad, that's just what the evidence shows.
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@spacecanuk8316 Here's a link to an example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81PRbWC9dgo
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