@viatorem @Tfmonkey It's been like this for years. The only time Ukraine was actually in the offensive, was the great counter offensive against Crimea 3-4 years ago... and that was a massive failure.
Since then, they're just stalling and looking for opportunistic media victories either by sacrificing a lot of soldiers for temporary appearance of strength or just exploiting a temporary weakness in the Russian defence. Usually by cheating. Overall, Russia always been pushing them, just slowly.