"It seems the Russian invasion is crawling"
During WW2, the siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days. Ukraine has only been under attack for 13 days.
During WW2, the siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days. Ukraine has only been under attack for 13 days.
I'm not in favor of Russia but it's clear they're running into much harder resistance than expected, and are really just warming up.
The Russians had to fight two brutal wars in Chechnya, lot of false starts and screw ups... but ~30 years later the Chechens sent 10000 men to fight in Ukraine for the Russians...
Instead you see things like the US does where you gain air superiority, take out all command and control via decapitation attacks, and then remove all the armor from the map with missiles and aircraft.
USSR in WWII was losing on average about 5000 (five thousand) soldiers per day. So no.
More seriously, think about it percentage wise. Russia is losing resources (tanks, missiles, etc) in a hurry. And the floor is not "zero XYZ remaining" otherwise they would have nothing left in the entire country to defend themselves with. They only have what they allocated for their idiotic invasion and no more. Russia may already be running low on cruise missiles based on the relatively peaceful night in Kyiv.
Ukraine shot down 4 Su-34. Russia has 134 of them. It takes years to build them.
In WW2, there were thousands of planes and tanks, but they were unsophisticated and quick to build.
The number of soldiers is also not comparable since modern armies aren't so large anymore.