“It’s over.”
Not quite.
The cracks will manifest as total collapse once every last defender of Bhakmut is dead. That’s when uniformed Ukrainians will start running for the hills.
And once that starts, it cannot be stopped.
“...as total collapse once every last defender of Bhakmut”
Oooh, so after eight months of fighting to capture Bhakmut Russia will take a city hundreds of miles from Kiev and then call victory for their war of conquest? Pfffft. The Soviet Union took comparable casualties capturing Vienna, a capital city, in four weeks. The Soviet Union didn’t declare the war over. They were the defender and Soviet troops believed in their government.
Russia has lost.