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I don't think Ukraine can win without foreign troops.
Some numbers:
Russia's military has 1m active personnel and 2m reserve, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces
Ukraine's military has 800,000 active personnel and 900,000 reserve, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine
Ukranians will have to be killing Russians at over a 3 to 1 ratio in order to succeed. This is before we start counting conscriptions, which Russia has a much larger population to pull from.
where is the problem? Russia is already throwing them to the meatgrinder with no regards for their own people. Only issue I see is that Ukraine's ammo could run out.
And do you really think that Russia could start another drafting without destabilizing its society even further? Not to mention that numbers doesen't really mean that much if morality is low and they are barely equipped or trained.
This is how the USSR defeated the Nazis at ~~Leningrad~~ Stalingrad. The Nazis had superior firepower but they literally ran out of bullets because there were so many Russians.
Key difference: The Nazis were on the offensive.
The only risk of "losing" I foresee for Ukraine is not being able to reclaim all territory lost without sustaining losses they aren't willing to. There is in my view zero chance Russia takes Kyiv, well without nukes or chemical warfare etc but I doubt they'd go that far. As it is right now it's looking like this could be a long war, 10+ years of very little movement of the frontlines.