Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
Once again you attempt to apply a heavy slant to matters. As said by Nutty, the heavy artillery bombardment over a wide front is recent - only been happening for 25% (?) of the war: even when Mariupol was being reduced to rubble, the numbers of Ukranians killed would have been far less because of protection by the destroyed buildings.
Maybe so, but reports such as this WSJ piece (
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine...rusukrainenato) suggest that the suffering is equally distributed.
The Ukrainian prohibition on men between 18 and 60 from leaving the country also indicates that manpower is in short supply.