Ukraine is not ‘winning’, they are fighting on. Russia is advancing and wreaking havoc, but at significant loss of materials, men, and prestige.
I wouldn’t get hung up over the media’s use of the word ‘winning’. I don’t think any of them have defined ‘winning’ as having driven out the threat. But they have correctly surmised that the Russians can’t ‘win’ any more here than they could in Afghanistan.
But neither is Ukraine holding ground - thus they are ‘losing’.
It’s not a stalemate and while I admire the Ukraine’s resolve, unless they’re actively supplied by NATO and Biden they’re not going to be able to hold out. Meanwhile Biden seems to want to give them just enough arms to give Putin pain in moving forward but not the arms necessary to actually repel Putin. Add in the Iran ‘peace treaty’ where Biden is actively working with Putin to give $10 billion to Russian businesses to build a nuclear reactor in Iran and its readily apparent that Biden is happily using Ukraine to play off of Putin but has no real intent on defending Ukraine.
And Zelensky has finally realized this.
Nobody is winning here. Ukraine is being destroyed physically and erased geographically. Putinist Russia has been exposed as a corrupt and hollow nation that will be fully owned by the Chicoms. Russian tanks run out of gas a few miles over the border and Russian babushka fight over sugar. Russia has become the joke of the world.