“Right now Russia can’t even move the line of contact by a few hundred yards in most places, including inside Russia. At their current rate of progress they’ll get to Kyiv in about 50 years.”
Fine with Russia as they’re in better shape now than when they started.
“Fine with Russia as they’re in better shape now than when they started.”
Define “better shape”.
In terms of Ukrainian territory gained, then perhaps so. But subtract from that total the Russian territory that Ukraine took.
Throw in hundreds of thousands dead and wounded Russians and the toll on their economy.
That doesn’t strike me as “better shape”.
However, the Russians do have the seized Ukrainian territory as bargaining chips.
We’ll see where it all goes.