Ukraine ‘needs 250,000 more troops’ to win war with Russia

Nick Reynolds, a research fellow in land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute, said Russia “pretty consistently” penetrates the Ukrainian front line. “The Russian military is operating at a scale where it can and does put pressure across the front in all places,” Reynolds said. He added that the fortress belt towns in the east are strategically important because the region’s topography grants the high ground to whoever controls them... “Ukraine is under huge amounts of pressure,” said Reynolds. “It’s a much smaller country, so while both sides have manpower issues Ukraine is feeling it much more acutely. Although the Russians are losing more personnel, it is comparatively easy for them to be replaced.”