would appear now that Ukraine was able to round up enough men
A hint: From Ukraine's persepctive it's generally a good idea to claim weakness... while the russians tend to claim strength.
Both sides lie in way, any war, something like truth will not emerge until well after some cessation of hostilities.
Economically russia is now stuck in the war, having converted to a war-time economy if it tries to withdraw the bottom will fall out of everything...
It's also converted, far more than Ukraine, to a war-time information regime and one by one internet sources leading outside russia are being shut.
Even if russia 'wins' it's now fatally screwed...
Afghanistan was russia's Vietnam, exposing the divisions in russian society and exposing the contradictions that made the soviet systum untenable...
This is something else and no country in modern times (except maybe Cambodia and/or Venezuela in different ways) have come close to self-destructing so spectacularly.