Fifteen to one shot? Why bravery will not make up for Russia’s numerical advantage

Any way you count it, the figures are stark: Ukrainian casualties are somewhere between 600 and 1,000 a day. One presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych, told the Guardian last week it was 150 killed and 800 wounded daily; another, Mykhaylo Podolyak, told the BBC that 100 to 200 Ukrainian troops a day were being killed.

It represents an extraordinary loss of human life and capacity for the