Still in need of technical improvement, still without a script to read, but hopefully still good enough to follow: The main reason for the Russian attack is not irredentism or the elimination of an alternative state model - but geography.
So far there have probably been no major capitulations, while the losses are still manageable. This suggests that the Ukrainian armed forces are still largely intact and the real fighting is still to come.
As a brief example of the difficulties you have as an observer when you want to assess and evaluate the conflict. Information is currently being spread almost exclusively with propaganda intent.
Russia's advance in the north has slowed. To the west of the Dnieper it was probably on their own initiative, while in the east the Ukrainian troops seemed to be the reason.
Heavy Russian losses, severe Russian logistics problems. Very low morale of Russian soldiers, while the morale of the Ukrainian armed forces still seems to be increasing.
The Russian troops are bringing supplies and probably fresh troops to Kiev in a huge convoy 60 km long. The Ukrainian armed forces are clearly unable to effectively combat this concentration of personnel and material.
The Russian armed forces present eight fundamental problems in their invasion of Ukraine, which I would like to address here. Four of them can be solved promptly, four cannot.