For a first try in 47 years, it made it to the moon. Its a success that it didn’t blow-up upon launch.
This is totally normal in the process of space exploration. Look at the failures of the Atlas program.
More recently, Space-X’s first rocket was the Falcon 1. Its first three launches were failures, followed by two successes. Then Falcon 9 became the workhorse rocket for a decade, with just two failures in 232 launches, for very high success rate of 99 percent
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is behind Space-X in commercial development, but they are similar.
The Russians realize they need to get their @sses in gear, because its once again obvious - free-market development and competition in the USA is pushing space-launch technology and scale in ways they and China simply can not compete with.
They'll have to dismantle Putinism.
I think the U.S. will eventually become less capitalist under Biden Administration (and his successor Gavin Newsom). So we may lose our lead in space.
another example of Russian “technology”
Russia also sent 10 missions to Mars - every single one of them failed
similarly, we see how non-effective Russian “tech’ is on the battlefield ...
According to Wikipedia, Russia’s record on lunar missions is 18-38-2 (successful-failure-partial failure). So it would have been a bigger surprise if Luna-25 had been successful.