All Russia did in the war was expand its left/west side out some ways - to back off NATO, create a land bridge and solve some historical and potential strategic and resource problems.
Nobody anywhere has shown how that gets turned around. Whatever side you’re on, how do you “crowbar” an army with air and battlefield superiority back across their border? Russia just moved-in to territory their communists created 3 decades ago.
So Ukraine did a “bulge” type of offensive. Has anyone told them that Russia could turn everyone’s lights off - tomorrow - if they wanted?
They could also level Kiev. Just sayin’.
Yeah, terrorizing their neighbors with nukes is about the only card those losers have left to play. Their conventional military has proven to be a joke.