Article is behind a paywall but I'm going to just post a couple of the most interesting tidbits. Not a happy situation, but damn if they aren't bleeding the Russians dry for every millimeter of land.

https://www.wsj.com/world/its-russia...w_article_pos2

It's Russian Men Against Ukrainian Machines on the Battlefields in Ukraine
By Ian Lovett

"One of Munin’s deputies spotted two Russians sprinting across a bridge, and Munin dispatched an explosive drone to hunt them down. As the Russians heard the drone approaching, they dropped to the ground. Then a huge blast lit up the screen. One man lay still, his leg blown off. The other struggled to get to his feet, then fell again.

“I think they’re dead,” a drone pilot, who was in a bunker several miles back from the front line, said on the radio.

“Go finish him so we know for sure,” Munin responded.

A second drone hit a minute later. “Plus two,” said 38-year-old Munin, meaning two more Russians killed, bringing the battalion’s total that day to eight. The nearest Ukrainian infantry hadn’t needed to leave their foxhole.

Munin said a massive increase in the quantity of drones at his disposal has allowed his battalion to take pressure off infantry.

A year earlier, his team might have launched 15 first-person-view drones, or FPVs, on a busy day. Now, Ukraine is producing roughly 200,000 drones a month. Munin sends out at least 60 on a normal day—and can afford to use them on severely injured Russians. In addition, many surveillance drones are now equipped with thermal-vision cameras, making it easy to spot Russian attacks at night."

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"Last spring, when a 25-year-old infantry platoon commander first arrived in the area south of Pokrovsk, there was lots of close infantry combat, he said. Within a month of the brigade’s arrival in the Pokrovsk area, he said, 80% of the infantry had been injured or killed and were no longer fit to fight. Since then, he said, the brigade had retreated about 19 miles in the area west of Pokrovsk.

They are now outnumbered by the Russians about 10-to-1, but the growing supply of drones—plus small influxes of new soldiers—have allowed the brigade to continue fighting the Russian advance. The Russians are suffering at least seven casualties for every Ukrainian soldier injured or killed, he said, but added that Kyiv would need 10 times as many troops here to stop Moscow’s troops entirely."