Russia stops at Zaporishia and Dniepro (and Donetsk) if Ukraine wants to keep losing. Kherson, Odessa, Karkiv if Ukraine really insists. They have other territories they are willing to trade to facilitate important liberations without having to destroy what they liberate. At any rate, the pace of Russian advance has increased in last year, and increased again in last months. It is far higher than the 3.5 year average of the SMO.

They aren't trying to take Ukraine, though, and they can progress faster as frontlines are broken through. Pokrovsk, as an example, is currently encircled by Russian forces and will probably be abandoned by Kiev soon, or a large-scale siege will occur.

Whether you're pro-Ukrainian or not, it's important to recognize that Ukraine is steadily losing ground and has far less staying power in a protracted war than Russia does. Russia's advancing slowly and basically forcing a long-term war, which works in their favor.

Yep, when it comes to Russia liberals start thinking about their actions, past, present, and future, in terms of how evil they are, rather than as another country. It's always too weak yet too strong, always capable of steering foreign elections and taking on all of Europe but also about to collapse, etc. It's tiring, because after the dust settles the liberal cope will always be that NATO didn't support Ukraine enough for them to win, which will always be an unfalsifiable hypothesis.

And thanks, I appreciate it comrade!