I just listened to this comment …
According to pro-Ukrainian mappers (so biased toward Zelensky), the Ukrainians managed to take control over these two tree lines (meaning two sides of a couple of fields).
Note … that is in the context of the Russians taking a nearby “village” (a settlement of housing along three roads … so quite small)
I’ve no experience of the actual war, but from what I’ve seen, it is unlikely that this great struggle between the US and Russia in this field, involved more than a dozen people more than a hundred** on either side (excluding artillery, command staff, intel, cooks, bread makers, armament makers, etc.)
To put this in perspective, the tree line concerned includes perhaps two or so mature trees, and, I would guess, bushes … perhaps in a field boundary region, or along the sides of a ditch.
That is the “great conflict” … which is being reported back to Putin and Trump. Realistically, there would have been firing for weeks. So, although perhaps maybe 5-20 people were killed/injured in the “battle” for these two fields, I would guess that hundreds have died getting thus far in this one small area. So, it is no small thing for those there, but it is amazing that I know so much about the battle for these two fields in Russia.
There are now families and loved ones, who will be grieving … all because of the evil of those who pushed Russia & Ukraine into war … and continue to push them to war.
**I’ve just seen a similar sized area (about 1.5 square km not two) where the fighting involved a “platoon” or “company”. A full strength platoon is around 27 people a company about 100. However, the fighting may not have involved everyone (I assume some are kept in reserve). If I assume 60 people for about 1.5 square km, that is 40 people per square km. The original area was 2 square km so about 80 people. If I assume 2-3km of tree line, then that is around 30m per person. If I assume ~3 in each post … that is one post every 100m.
