Exactly that. They're achieving their goal by careful and thorough advancement.

The priority is liberating the Russian part of the Ukraine from the Zelensky dictatorship and his neo nazis. Why would Russia want to occupy western Ukraine? It will just be a nazi filled mess to govern and be targeted. That's how i see it. I'm sure I'm way off on certain things lol.

But these losers will say that Russia is losing because they can't make it to Kiev, or some such nonsense.