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Perhaps Russia have, I never stated who has lost more simply that both sides have lost huge amounts of men and that is a situation I'd like to see stop, I personally don't want to see either side get annihilated.

Collins signed over the six counties to try and get peace for the majority of the country. The majority of Ireland view him as a hero rather than a traitor (rightly or not depends on your position). There is a direct comparison- should Zelensky be willing to sign over parts of Ukraine to Russia? That's a question for those involved to decide. Maybe Russia might withdraw from Donbass if Crimea was handed over to them, who knows. To be honest I dont live in Ukraine, whether Russia gets to keep one bit of land or a other is a decision they will have to make, or have already made and we will see how the consequences of that decision play out. Maybe Ukraine pushes Russia back to its initial borders, maybe Russia takes the whole of Ukraine, we will have to wait and see.

The "proxy war" and "NATO is prepared to fight until the last Ukrainian" lines are straight from the Kremlin. These lines are being repeated on Russian TV every night.

Im not against Russia withdrawing their troops, I'm simply stating that negotiations are the best way to secure some sort of peace. I'm not saying peace has to be under Russian terms, negotiations will likely involve an agreement which neither side are 100% in favour of but manages to satisfy both sides in some fashion.

It is a proxy war and Zelenskyy himself has said that Ukraine is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian. What exactly is your point?

I don't know the exact figure of Ukraine's losses. I do know they haven't needed to mobilise and extra hundread of thousands like Russia have. I know they have only visually lost 1/3 the armour as Russia have. There's no evidence of Ukrainian troops being used as cannon fodder, no evidence of Ukrainian troops leaving their wounded behind to die. No evidence of railway carts filled with dead servicemen like the Russians packed to the roof in Ukrainian railway carts.

So in light of the above, I could make an educated guess that Russia have lost more troops than Ukraine have.

But you cling to the retracted statement that Ukraine had lost 100k if it makes you cope better.

The collapse in Kherson was due to good work of precision long range artillery/bombing of a few key bridges the russian relied on to supply their garrison. It wasnt a combined arms tanks and infantry overrunning russian positions, they retreated because they knew eventually they would be cut off from behind due to bridges and pontoons being cut.

Kharkiv was more maneuver warfare with fast advances causing the understrength russian mobik garrisons to retreat, and their failure to prepare any kind of defensive line (trench digging equipment embezzled by one of the Russian healy-raes), meant that they either had to yield ground or die. Many died, but they still had to yield all the ground. That was more like Soviet "deep-battle" tactics, taking advantage of the Russians trying to hold an entire front with a weak elastic defense, by attacking multiple points with quick moving armor and DRGs. When they did get the breakthrough they sped well ahead undermining the entire russian defense. But it wasnt reliant on aircraft or artillery - Ukrainian artillery at the time could scarcely keep up with the rate the DRGs were pushing into occupied territory.

Artillery and infantry as combined arms, where have I heard that before. Ah yes, WW1 style "combined arms" - trenches and relying on rolling artillery barrages to advance. The MBTs are no good in the advance without infantry support due to high prevalence of ATGMs around, and the infantry are no good under the face of artillery barrages. Counter battery is the name of the game (in the absence of air superiority, which no side has), and right now Ukraine do not have enough artillery to do counter battery effectively.

The substantial amount of artillery pieces given to Ukraine is not 'at present', that was all last year. The deliveries have slowed down a lot, along with shells, both of which are what they really need if they want to take back the occupied territories.

I suggest you do your own research. But that's probably a bit much to ask isn't it.