Indeed we don’t know many details, but what we do know at this point:
1) Putin’s Plan A of the Ukrainians surrendering as soon as they see Russian troops has failed
2) Plan B - The rapid encirclement of seizure of Kiev has also failed
The problem is that Russia still has many other options in Ukraine, and large reserves outside of the country.
I strongly suspect those reserve troops have a much higher percentage of conscripts
What I have pieced together from reading various Russian social media is that Putin is not legally allowed to send conscripts to outside the borders of Russia in a military action.
Only conscripts that have served a minimum of four months and voluntarily sign a contract converting them from a conscript to a contract soldier may be sent into action.
Reports are that in these deployed areas on the border with Ukraine there is a lot of pressure being brought to bear on these conscripts to sign contracts so they can be sent in.
I can’t tell whether Freepers are complaining Putin is moving too fast or too slow.
In the end it does not matter.
(One poster pointed out one key similarity to the US Civil War—the total resources available. The Union army made every possible blunder, and still could not manage to lose because of overwhelming industrial and material advantages.)
Putin will figure out what needs to be done, and he will decapitate the Ukrainian government with a Russian puppet, and that will be that.
Then China starts to invade Taiwan, and the mass media forgets all about the Ukraine.