It's not just Ritter though. Col Macgregor is saying dang near the same thing. Bahkmut is proving to be a debacle for Ukraine. You can say it isn't important but they have been flooding troops in to hold the city and area around it. They lost the high ground outside the city and pro Ukrainian videos of the area are freaking horrible. Guys are in trenches filled with 2 ft of water with temps slightly above freezing by day and down to the 20's at night. A Ukrainian commander in Bahkmut said they have quit removing the dead from trenches because they end up losing men trying to recover their buddies.
That Uk commander was saying they are losing 200 to 300 wounded every day and the wounded come back in a day or 2 and are put back in a muddy hole to get the shit shelled out them. He seemed pissed that guys that should be in a hospital are just getting wrapped up and sent back to fight and they aren't getting any relief.
A big reason the dead and wounded number for Ukraine is so guarded is because they want to keep morale high. The problem with that is people are going back to trenches thinking they are a few months away from victory when in fact, they are going to freeze, get infected and die. The fact you act like you love Ukraine so much but don't seem to care how many are dead and maimed.... I get you're terribly uniformed and are just going on 1980's era gung ho hatred for Russia but Ukrainians are suffering worse and worse by the day that we keep this farce going. I guess you can live with it out of ignorance.