If you look at latest Avdiivka charges, it's a meatbath. But so was almost all Russian imperial and Soviet union tactics. By making human/zombie waves they overwhelm atrillery/local defences and inevitably take ground in expense of few hundreds of men. Weird but when there is a shortage of everything except for people its how it goes in all totalitarian institutions.
Most scrappy overpriced phones doesn't have mini jack so no antenna to get radio