Latest word is that NKorea's ready to send a lot more troops. This sounds like China, which really wants to keep things going to distract the West from its expansionist plans
And it culls part of the population of North Korea that they can't feed.
russian government is done and intends to stop active hostilities and is just trying to put as much pressure on the US and Ukraine as possible so it won't look like a massive defeat.
There's little they can do now. If they used tactical nukes, the escalation would mean there's no r*SSia and in any case, China would never let them. Bad for business...
reports from russia indicate the economy is..... not flourishing (and there is the spectre of food shortages coming up
It's probably far worse than is being reported, especially in smaller towns. They're also being weird about the internet too, cutting cellular internet (weak enough in most of r*SSia anyway) at least daily and forcing r*SSians to download apps that are easy to monitor.
Plus of course the ground is going to turn soft soon and there is no possibility of any sort of advance by them.
Check mate.