The current fight resembles very closely the battles last summer when Russia made some grindingly slow advances in Donbas. As far as any advance on Kiev from the north, that's almost impossible now as Kiev is far, far better defended than when Russia attacked last year and Putin has fewer troops and equipment. Any advance to the West is still blocked by the Pripet marshes.
Putin is simply trying a Verdun strategy to raise the costs of the war to the point that Ukraine sues for peace, but I seriously doubt that will happen.
Yeah but Ukraine may have up to one million dead. A couple of million will have relocated permanently in the West. Ukraine’s demographics will destroy the nation in the next generation and Russia will try again to conquer Ukraine.
Too much differences of opinion there to unpack so…we’ll see.
In a war of attrition, if that is what the US and London choose this to be ( using the Ukrainian people) then the winner will be the guy left with the most fighters..