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Originally Posted by Itse
Losing 300 marines is bad, but it's not much in the total scale of this war. They can literally lose a thousand times that and not run out of men.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...tunning-defeat
This article explains a little bit of the scale of the attack as we know it so far. This was not 'mobilized troops running at Bakmut' in waves that we are used to hearing and the constant attacks that have continued throughout.
The 300 Russian marines killed is an account from a single letter from that brigade, and does not count losses of the whole operation. Also of note is these were not mobilized troops or DPR puppets, but some of Russia's most elite soldiers remaining. Accounts so far are above 1K dead in this attack alone.
Speculation for this offensive is that Russia was looking to secure a railine to supply Kherson directly.
Issues with news that are so fresh, is that OSINT (basically news gathered from all sources) is all we can go by, as such the main analysis we have is the one letter and reports that Ukraine lost control of certain areas in a mass offensive that overran their positions initially but got them back.
We likely won't know for a while just how big this was until we get some type of official confirmation, could turn out be quite small in the grand scheme of things, but it definitely was big enough for several notable russian propagandists to get quite upset.