Russia has just taken the entirety of the Lugansk region of eastern Ukraine. With this it gains significant access to two vital assets, an oil refinery (which was Russian-owned until confiscated by the Ukrainian regime) and a very useful network of train lines. With the latter Russia can speedily reinforce its military assets and with the former it will be able to fuel them.
Pretty accurate summing up of how I also see the war progressing
The Ukrainians do not stand a chance against teh Russian might and are just having people killed for a useless ideal.
Nice objective article