As a US diplomat was poised to return from Poland to the American Embassy in Kiev, she made a blatant public comment saying "Putin you lost."
While the diplomat may believe what she said, Putin's forces are slowly but surely advancing in the South and working their way to Odessa and points West. It appears that they are consolidating their gains, and while Ukraine's resistance may ultimately force Russia to a cease fire, the cost of that cease fire will be a cession of as much land as Russia can occupy up until the guns fall silent; and after that, it would take a full scale international war to restore Ukraine's borders to their pre 2014 status.
