Of course they are, they've done it the whole war.

Most of the time executing civilian men as per our gender's supposed "main purpose" in life.

But they have also executed women and children indiscriminately as well. There are recorded radio conversations of Russian soldiers explaining their orders as "kill everyone, I don't care who they are".

Russia’s image was trashed when they failed to take Ukraine in the first weeks of the invasion. Winning now (or months/years from now) isn't going to fix that. Even if they did win what would they get? Russia has no real need for Ukraine. I'd rather be known as a country who screwed up but knows when to quit than one who does something dumb and is too embarrassed by it to pull their head out of their own ass no matter what the cost.

USSR was a superpower before it failed. Russia, not so much.

Anyway, I noticed you're writing about the image of being so, so nevermind...