Russian Casualties in the Russian Conflict

Russian media organisation Medusa published a report about Russian casualties saying that 55,000 Russians had been killed in the conflict so far and 77,000 VSI, very seriously injured. I think it's interesting to why are these figures so high? The number of reasons, first of all, the Russian elite military pretty much were killed or seriously injured in the first few months. Therefore you see that replaced with conscripts who are very badly trained or little trained and equipped - they've been dying in their thousands. And the leadership is basically behind them, Russian officers are behind the troops and they're ordering them over the top if they don't go over the top. So the morale is absolutely