Mariupol the major Neo Nazi stronghold now taken. 1095 Ukie Marines just surrendered. That leaves one last stated objective, the Donbass provinces.
Sounds like winning to me, just saying.
You would do well to read Vlad’s speech at the outbreak of the war, ( none have), it will make this whole mess clearer. He does what he says, at all costs.
Russia said they would be treated as liberators and planned to sweep the whole country within three days and put in a Putin puppet like that creep in Belarus. Instead they were repelled from most of Ukraine and have resorted to blowing up apartments buildings, villages, hospitals, and schools. Have raped and plundered and commited gross atrocities pretty much everywhere they went. Russia is now a world pariah worse than the taliban and isolated on the level of north korea. Lots of dead generals and lost equipment, babushkas are fighting over bags of sugar in grocery stores across Russia. Hell of a price to pay for allegedly claiming success on a mission based on some bullshit propaganda about neo-nazis.