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The manpower and equipment losses spell doom for Russia's military campaign. Current attritional approaches, designed to exhaust Ukrainian forces, have instead eroded Russia's own capabilities, with military losses totaling 160,000 by the close of April 2025. Transposed into geographic terms, the ratio of soldiers lost to each square mile gained creates an unsustainable equation that highlights the futility of continued aggression without a coherent strategy.