[anovikov]

Sure now they are slowly but surely taking/retaking territory. But until late 2023, they were on the defensive. It took almost 2 years for Putin to turn things around after a botched initial invasion. And at the rate of the worst month since (November 2024) it will take them like, 100+ years to capture the entirety of Ukraine.

And Russia has been stable because vast majority of people indeed support what Putin does. Putin in fact, isn't a problem at all, problem is Russians themselves.