I think the hypersonic missiles are more a message to Nato than to the Ukranians.
He has plenty of missiles and artillery although the artillery is still not where he wants it. So the missiles do damage while the new set of russian clowns are to arrive soon. Odessa and those parts are receiving missiles from the war ships. And after the east is secured the ruskie troops will continue to move west. Putin hoping it will all come together whereby he can have some more troops and bring all that convoy type artillery right into the city to go full Aleppo.
The Ukranians of course get to fight back and have their owns plans. But they are in a mighty tough spot with the odds still against them. Yes, the ruskies will underperform but that's a lot of force to overcome, and Putin has always fought in his other battles by just lobbing artillery into the civilian areas to reduce them to parking lots. As previously discussed, I would not necessarily assume that the Russian pigs will do the dreaded house to house where all the pundits say they are so vulnerable. They starving the east to death and that, along with shelling everything that is standing is working for them. Mariupol be gone today if not already. Odessa a couple more days. etc.
Yes, as I said, the Ukranians get to have a say in all of that but it is not a good picture for them despite all the bright spots. As I said the other day the quality of the weapons coming in is good, so the russians just holding in the north waiting for reinforcements works for the Ukranians as well. Russians pretty much have the east now though.
