Its not like for like in terms of population numbers. Russia hasn't fully mobilised. Its very very short on workers. Its struggling on getting contracts signed even though its signup bonus is very high (by Russian standards). From a Russian narrative, its not a 'war'. Its a SMO. This is why Putin doesn't feel like he can mobilise like Ukraine has. If he did it, he would lose massive public support. The Russian support for the Ukrainian 'incursion' is already dropping.
The ratio is better than 6:1.
Ukraine's economy is already on a war footing, and they are now getting a stream of revenue thanks to the frozen Russian funds. So you could say that Ukraine's economy is already dead, but its very much kept alive from outside funding. Russia don't have such an arrangement available to it.
And Russia's economy is a 1 trick pony. Oil and gas. And Ukraine has already demonstrated how vulnerable Russia is in this space. I believe that Ukraine is holding off on hitting more oil and gas refineries until after the American election. Thankfully there is no lack of targets that Ukraine can now threaten on a regular basis. The destruction of 4 months worth of ammo recently was a damn good start.
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