Ukraine is losing on average 4-5 men to advance a few hundred feet in its counteroffensive, causing morale to suffer, report says

• Ukraine is losing, on average, 4-5 men to advance 100 meters in its counteroffensive.
• Russian forces were well-prepared and were using dense minefields to hinder Ukrainian advancements.
• One soldier said that while Ukraine had practiced how to capture trenches, but not holding them.

Ukrainian troops are suffering from deteriorating morale as casualties mount in their grinding counteroffensive to take back territory from Russia, a report says.

"Every hundred meters of land we gain means 4-5 infantrymen who have left the ranks – this is the average loss," an unnamed Ukrainian infantryman told The Kyiv Post.