They did. You can check it yourself - just use the search engine to find it, or any other stuff from the first weeks of the war. In many cases, the same users, who know say that's it's nearly over, were saying that it's nearly over in March 2022, then again month after month, no matter what happens it's just another of Putin's great 6D strategies, another 1 million “Nazis” killed.
Name names.