Ukraine Defense Minister Fedorov: Military to Prioritize Russian Mass KIA Casualties, Drones. The former IT business developer and now Europe’s youngest Defense Minister wants his troops to shoot for 50,000 Russian soldiers killed in combat, every month.

I mean, wasn’t Ukraine already trying to inflict maximum casualties every day. How does coming up with an arbitrary number with lots of zeroes exactly help.

When something becomes a metric it becomes useless. For example, this can cause commanders to trade territory for enemy casualties (which could very well be a smart decision if reserves are being saved for counterattacks). Also, this says nothing about casualty ratio, which is arguably more important.

The IT management experience is shining through. Reminds of some of my previous IT managers.

Targeting Russian hardware and installations will hurt them far more than focusing on KIA numbers. Russia historically doesn’t give a shit about taking casualties, they’re used to meat grinder assaults.
Targeting Russian oil fields and their energy sector has been far more effective. I hope Ukraine doesn’t divert resources from those strikes to maximize the number of kills on the battlefield.

This is not the right goal. It just earns political brownie points.