Rusia has been inching forwards for months. That's just a fact. Propaganda has got to you.
Emphasis on inches. Ukraine War Mapper [1] does a good job documenting the line of control. It's not a good look for what, until recently, looked like a dominating regional power.
This spring will show if they can change the current calculus but if not Russia is going to change the end game.
Something is changing every day as Russia's annual defence budget's worth of modern arms and training are deployed by Kyiv [1][2].
[1] https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine...
Of course, they are going slower than that. And also, at the current rate of attrition, Russia will run out of Russians long, long before that.
I'll do the same:
> Russia has gone backwards for a year now.
This is false, Russia went backwards, and then went forwards. Maybe you meant to say "has gone backwards with respect to where it was last year". That is true.
Please write precisely, write what you mean, so others don't have to realize you actually mean something else than what you wrote