Yeah the experience on older military equipment is just as important too though! Just for kicks and giggles let me pose the question, how many Ukrainians do you think Russia has trained to be extremely good at shooting a Browning M2 .50 cal heavy machine gun accurately by flooding Ukraine’s skies with Shaheds?

Certainly a whole lot of Ukrainians are involved in air defense that aren’t necessarily front line soldiers and you have to stop and think about whether it is really “winning” to start training your enemies general populace on how to shoot heavy machine guns extremely well.

Do you know what weapon will be in every single war until humans go extinct? …and maybe after that too who knows? The Browning M2 .50 cal machine gun.

Russia is training tons of Ukrainians to get obnoxiously good at doing things with a M2 that you probably shouldn’t be able to do with an M2 like shooting down cruise missiles and such, and let me stress that at the end of the day after artillery and drones it is crew served weapons such as the M2 that decide combat at the the infantry level whether they be mounted on ground robots, tripods or vehicles. So TL;DR Russia is training Ukrainians to be extremely good at one of the most decisive infantry combat weapon ever made by refusing to stop flooding Ukraine’s skies with flying bombs… to me that is NOT a winning strategy.

I use the M2 just for example here but the principle applies generally.

See Ukraine getting the M119 105mm howitzer as another specific example of Russia defeating itself by forcing Ukraine to procure and become efficient at weapons far superior to Russia’s own.