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I assume it's a simple editing mistake, similar to when you're talking to someone and your brain decides to change the wording half-way through the words you were originally going to say and you end up saying a weird hybrid of the two. So they probably originally said "to assault" but while they were changing things around they meant to change it to "into a meat grinder" but didn't quite finish the job. I know I've made errors like that before.
No, I've seen this phrase used increasingly over the past few months to describe this kind of thing. The meaning is as you surmised, it's an assault that is known to be simply feeding men into a meatgrinder. The hope is apparently to jam the meatgrinder with too much meat.
Also forces the Ukrainians to use artillery shells and ammunition.
The Kremlin has basically made the cold hard calculation that one Russian life is worth less than an artillery shell and some bullets and the chance of delaying the inevitable for a while longer.
Wouldn't be surprised that by the time this is over, half a million Russians are dead.
Of course, to paraphrase Stalin, it's not the dead that count, it's the people who count the dead. I'm sure they'll simply deny half of them died at all, and families will have to live with it. Just Russia things.