Russia seems to be plodding along towards their intermediate strategic goal of dividing Ukraine into East/West along the Dnieper. Is it messy? Of course. The Red Army never cared a whit about the number of dead soldiers.
this war has exposed Russia for the has been that it is, and honestly always was.
The only thing Russia ever had going for it was scientists it got from Germany after the WW2, and stolen nuclear technology knowledge it got from traitors here in the US.
Russia is pathetic. Practically a 3rd world country after this.
Thise isn’t the red army. Russians areas willing to send their sons as cannon fodder.
And they haven’t come anywhere near grabbing even a large chunk if the east.