The Battles in the South of Ukraine

The russians have been trying to use their artillery superiority in numbers in southern ukraine. But the terrain is different there, rather than fighting for cities, it's been fighting for territory. So eventually ground has to be taken by soldiers at rifle pointa grenade throwing distances. This sounds more like a sort of well wore semor war stuff, with a long range artillery exchanges. Is that how it actually works out? I think we can all imagine what it was like in in the battles for the cities. And now it as it has changed in the east, where we recall that earlier thes summer, the russians were making slow but steady progress.