Russian casualties in Ukraine

 Business Insider:

A Russian soldier described the "slaughter" of 1,000 0f his comrades and said they don't stand a chance against well-prepared Ukrainian forces, according to a leaked phone call released by Ukraine's Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR.)

On the call, the soldier tells his mother that the whole forest is "dotted with dead soldiers" as Russia tries to take the village of Ivanivka in Kherson Oblast, per a translation by The Kyiv Post.

"There's such a slaughter going on there!" he said. "More than a thousand were killed."

He describes Russian forces suffering heavy losses when coming up against heavily fortified Ukrainian positions.

He said that when a unit of 20 Russians assaulted a Ukrainian position, only "two or three come back."

In one instance, he said, a handful of Ukrainian soldiers fended off hundreds of Russian troops.

"Yesterday Sam flew the plane and said that just eight people were sitting in the trench, just eight khohols. And our men go there by the hundreds, and they are not even capable of taking a fucking thing!" he said. "Khohols" is derogatory Russian term for Ukrainians.

He said that snipers and machine gunners were in the trench, along with a "pillbox" — a concrete dug-in guard post — to protect them.

Insider was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the call.

Ukraine's intelligence department has periodically published the audios of intercepted Russian calls, which Russian media often dismisses as fake.
...

The inability of Russia to advance and achieve its objectives in Ukraine suggests the casualty figures are not out of whack. 

See, also:

How Ukraine misleads Russian troops with decoy weapons – expert interview

Russia’s Defense Ministry has already reported 70 “downed” Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jets, which is more than Ukraine had before the war.

Recently, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has once again made an outrageous claim that Russian forces “shot down 24 [Ukrainian] planes in five days.”

The spread of these fakes about “destroyed Ukrainian equipment” can be partially explained by Russian propaganda. However, at least some of the “liquidated” weapon systems are dummy targets, cheap decoys, manufactured both domestically and abroad.
...

And:

 Russians confiscating abandoned Ukrainian homes in occupied territories

And:

Russians lose 4,000 troops near Avdiivka – Ukraine's Defence Minister

And:

 Inside Ukraine’s plan to build an army of killer robots to defeat Russia

...

The latest of his projects is the creation of an “Army of Robots” to carry out tasks that Ukrainian soldiers would often have to risk their lives to do.

Already arriving on the battlefield are automated machine guns with artificially-intelligent aiming systems that don’t require human interaction.

There have also been recent announcements made about the creation of robots that can lay Ukrainian mines and dig up explosives left in the ground by Russian forces.

“We want robots that can absorb as much of the enemy’s firepower as possible, so we can be flexible and avoid losing the lives of our soldiers,” Mr Fedorov added.
...