level it how? bombarding civilians 24/7? that might trigger later something else.
what he did do is either him or his dumdum generals put in front the youngest, least geared, least trained soldiers that got literally fucked in the ass.
he wanted a blitzkrieg and did literally nothing of the sort.
and wait until they go in the major cities, especially KIEV, on foot to conquer it, as you can't go in by tank in an dense urban fight, russians will lose thousands of men very fast. including special forces trained people that yes, are extremely well trained, but not that many and in such an urban fight, a lot of people will die regardless of their training, in the end.
plus the kadirov wanna be whore that got massacred along with everyone of his checkens, this is another myth blown out of the water. they all died and I am not even sure they killed anyone back lol. not that it matters.
in a regular war, not committed warcrimes 24/7, this is the best russia can do.
it makes a silly statement for the future, unless it's nuclear weapons, russia is literally laughable by a good army.
also he has 200 000 k there in ukraine and this is 50% or more of his regular army, again a number not wow at all.
plus all these heroes stories, ukrainians preferring to die than surrendering, the president being on the streets with an assault rifle, the klytshko brothers defending KIEV on foot with ak47s, both oleksandr usyk (world champion at boxing right now) and now vasiliy lomachenko (another world champion boxer that still competes), imagine the morale boost when you see someone come. from teh USA from their many million dollar mansions with their ferraris and their millions of dollars in banks. to fight on foot for Ukraine. This is incredible and it's probably a feeling we will never experience in this lifetime.