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Fortifications still need men to guard them, they can compliment troops only to a certain extent. The young men are dead, deployed or gone. If the average age of your soldiers is 43 and you have Ukrainian demographics, you're not winning any wars in future because you won't have the soldiers left to fight them.
Furthermore, the Russians aren't stopping until they get the territories they want along with some kind of Finlandization/demilitarization/puppet state (the whole 'Denazification' angle is pretty silly considering Zelensky is Jewish but the meaning shines through). That has been Russia's proclaimed war goal the whole time. Why would they stop and leave the Ukrainians time to recover? The Ukrainians have been fortifying since 2014. They put great effort into fortifying Donbass, which the Russians have slowly been grinding through. Why would the Russians take substantial casualties on these fortifications, push to the point where the Ukrainians are exhausted and even Western media begins to admit that Ukraine is losing the war... and then stop? I suppose Putin might have a moment of weakness and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory but this is a very slim hope.
Ultimately, there's no cheat code to win in war. If you have considerably less manpower, considerably less firepower and the enemy is a highly determined nuclear superpower, then you just lose. It's possible albeit difficult to breach fortifications if you have long-range fires, air superiority, specialized demining equipment... in short if you have an advanced, comprehensive military-industrial base. There's no way to win without being comprehensively stronger. Mines are not a secret superweapon, it's just that the Russians have more of them just like they have more of nearly everything - artillery, tanks, helicopters, aircraft, long-range missiles, drones and men.
All Ukraine had and all they have is a bunch of choices about how they lose.
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