It doesn’t help that most reporting simply shows another burning tank, or another blown out building. It’s only if you’ve watched the map over the last several weeks do you see the reality on the ground. Since the initial incursion the Russians have failed to advance, and in some areas have begun to lose ground. Mariupol is the exception. And it is the key to Putin’s “honorable” exit. And for whatever reason they haven’t been able to get them help or resupply.
Ukraine has done very good work in beating Russia to a standstill, but it has cost them dearly.
Who knows... it's been a month and the massive amount of misinformation circulating has made it impossible to know what is actually going on in a strategic sense. The Russians typically fight wars of attrition, they are not over in a month, just starting. I suspect their primary objective was regime change, so we will be able to judge their success or failure based on that. The west's goal is to prop up this corrupt regime and keep them in power no matter what the cost. So we will be able to judge our own “success” based on that as well. Everything else is mostly misinformation at this point.