Russia had a massive advantage in military equipment at the start. Holding all the advantages, Russia should have captured the entire country in 5 days. Russia expected to win within 5 days, and Western analysts generally agreed, believing Russia would wrap up Ukraine within 1-2 weeks.
Ukraine lasted and lasts for 220 days , wiping out Russia’s best troops at Hostomel and nearly wiping them out to the last man. That’s before substantial Western weapons arrived, and it only got worse from there
Russia lost over 100 supply dumps, weapons depots, and command posts from HIMARS strikes in the space of about a month.
With Russia’s equipment advantage starting the war, Russia’s forces performing nominally, within expected parameters, to put it plainly “doing average” would have amounted to capturing Kyiv within 5 days. We are nearly 8 months into the war and Russia doesn’t have Kyiv. It is losing Luhansk, losing Kherson, and it already lost the Kharkhiv oblast. Only a delusional fool would call that, “Russia doing well.”