They're holding onto that meatwave and high casualty narrative/cope. Which in itself doesn't make sense: "we're losing but at least we're killing Russians for our masters, the United States."

You'd need a Geiger counter to measure copium this strong.

"Kursk was a good idea, it exposed Russia as being weaker than many people believed,” said a commander of a Ukrainian ground forces unit. “But we are paying the price of it with [more of our own land].”