But driving a column down a road in Indian country is not the same thing as having control over the Indians.
But the losses the Ukrainians are inflicting on Putin's invasion force may erode the base of support Putin has among the elite in Russia and it may turn out that he ends up not being able to access the large amount of resources Russia will have to mount to "win" the war in the face of such resistance, and so perhaps a negotiated end without Putin achieving his war aims