“Bad news (for the Ukraine) is that the new battalions are now battle-hardened and motivated.”
The corollary to that, of course, is...so are the Ukrainians.
This fight is going to last longer than most thought. And, if Russia DOES ultimately prevail, it will become embroiled in a resistance fight that will make the French equivalent of the 1940s pale in comparison. And there will be perpetual bad blood between Russians and Ukrainians, even more than there is now; and much more than there was before the invasion.
Graphic video: The Russian unit commander (Chechen) was killed by the (Ukrainian) shell at the moment of live reporting on social media TikTok that their mission was completed successfully with only one wounded.
https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/status/1520068931800686594
Not going to happen unless Russia mobilizes for war. They will have to call all their reserves. I haven't seen any indications that they are going to do that.