Still lots of artillery being hit, seems they're still clearing the way for the main phase of the counteroffensive. I wonder if we'll see a breakthrough at any point, like in Kharkiv, or if that was a lucky punch.
It absolutely does include wounded. Ukraine keeps their wording vague, perhaps on purpose, but there’s no way their estimate of KIA is 4-5x higher than any credible western estimate.
It’s still an absurd number of casualties, and it’s absurd that Russian citizens don’t seem to care at all.
As I understand their war aims, they need this particular land because without it they lose access to the Black Sea, which severely curtails their access to the Atlantic. Their other ports are in the North Atlantic and tend to be frozen over and unusable during the winter. If they lose Sevastopol, they're greatly reduced as an Atlantic power.