NATO has to write-off, ie. say good-bye to, Lithuania ("Suwalki Gap") and the 2 other Baltic states east of it (Latvia and Estonia).
In Ukraine the Russian military just gets rid of its old arsenal to fasten the modernization step...
It's all going according to "The Plan"...
Russia just needs more UAV combat drones, IMHO.
Putin had only a plan for 3 days. When that went wrong the new plan was:"improvisation".
But even that went wrong.
At least Russia lost a lot of "professional soldiers", so now they have ten thousands of vacancies for soldiers (to replace the dead ones) but not a single Russian is interested. They are all too afraid to go to Ukraine for that special operation.
In reality it is more a high probable retour ticket in a body bag. At least if they are lucky enough that Putin wants the dead body back. But if the dead body returns Putin has to pay money to the family, so it will be registered as "missing" as that's cheaper for Putin as there is then no proof that the soldier is dead. Probably that soldier and his family voted for Putin as he was very good for the Russians. LOL.
I can only assume those historic events add to a feeling of invincibility to the average Russian. "See, no matter how dark things get for us, we always manage to win over everyone!"