Putin did not call the open military invasion of Ukraine by the forces of his eight armies, which formed the backbone and elite of the Russian armed forces, directly and openly a war. He expected to occupy in a few days, if not all of Ukraine, then most of it, except for the western regions, which he promised to give to Hungary. He also hoped that the leading states would not have time to respond to military aggression in Ukraine and therefore called the war unleashed by him a "special operation." However, no matter how he called the invasion of his army into a neighboring country with the aim of capturing it, it was always called a war.

Now active battles in Ukraine are going on at the front with a duration of 1300 kilometers, Russia has already lost over a hundred thousand of its military, killed and wounded in this war, 2199 tanks, 4690 armored vehicles, 250 aircraft, 216 helicopters, 1302 artillery systems, 312 rocket launchers, 168 air defense systems, 3550 auxiliary automotive equipment, etc.
On the fronts, there is already a clear preponderance of Ukraine. In September alone, during offensive operations in the Kharkiv direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured 49 Russian tanks, 134 armored vehicles and a large number of other military equipment, when the Russians fled in a hurry until they reached their border. By the way, the same Hungary is armed with only 46 tanks.
In the Kherson region, a large and most combat-ready group of Russians, numbering up to 20 thousand people, is surrounded and pressed against the Dnieper River, which is methodically destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since this group is completely under their fire control. The Russians can only either surrender, which they are already doing, or try to cross the wide Dnieper on their own using improvised means. Someone may consider this a victory for Russia, but the facts are stubborn things.