Russia still sends disposable infantry; reserves start to run dry — video
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Russia can still afford to send infantry one-way to Ukraine's front, but this resource is ending, deputy commander of the Lubart brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Andrii Dyachenko said in an interview with Radio NV on Oct. 21.
“We all understand how Ukraine treats its infantry, and how Russia treats its infantry," he explained.
"That is, Russia can afford to send its infantry one-way; Ukraine still tries as much as possible to preserve its soldiers. That is a key difference, and because of it it is hard to fight the Russians, because their one-time soldiers go one-way, without hope and without an understanding that someone will take them away.”
He noted that although Russia’s resources are many times greater than Ukraine’s, they are not infinite.
“We are not fighting a country whose population is a billion or one and a half billion," he said optimistically.
"We are fighting a country whose population is several times larger than ours, but sooner or later they also begin processes of exhaustion, unwillingness to go to the front. Moreover, all Russians can see that the front is not a place to come and make money and return. That only happens for a small number of lucky ones.”
Dyachenko reminded that Russia mostly recruits soldiers from poor provinces and national republics.
“For them this is a contract with the devil, a kind of Squid Game — a one-way road," he added.
"They get their million, two, three, however much they are paid now, and they effectively sign a pact with the devil. They play the Squid Game, with what seems to be a clear understanding that for them it is a one-way road. But even those people — everyone willing to play this Squid Game — clearly these resources are already running out.”
AFU General Staff data indicated that from Feb. 24, 2022 to Oct. 21, 2025 total losses of the invading army are approximately 1,132,200 people.
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