The taking of Mariupol, all of Luhansk and most of Donetsk have been successes. They've been hard fought, grinding successes, but successes nonetheless.
They don't control all of Luhansk and they don't control most of Donetsk oblast. I'd lay off from russian TV for a bit :) The goal was to take Kyiv in 3 days and install puppet government they have not accomplished that and have not taken a single major city in Ukraine despite Kharkiv being 40km from the border. So no for self proclaimed worlds 2nd army they have not accomplished a single strategic goal let alone the goal of the campaign.
They haven't taken a single major city in Ukraine except Kherson and Mariupol, two major Ukrainian cities.
JFC.
Kherson population is 280K people Mariupol 400k
Major city would be Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnepr, Odessa or Lviv
Russia controls less territory today than it did in March, yet I am told that Ukraine losing territory in July is losing, Russia losing more territory and not recovering it in March is not Russia losing.
Funny goal posts seem to get used a lot in this conflict.