It seems that the Putin forces recruit 20,000 soldiers per month, while suffering casualties at about the same rate. They mostly recruit convicts and people from poor regions who join for the money. As a result, Russians in general don't feel upset about the high casualties. Russian generals don't care either.
@rms Because it doesn't affect those in power in St. Petersburg & Moscow, but ethnic minorities in the periphery...
That's why they don't conscript folks there...