>>64486978 (OP)
Armor usage is up the last month or two, the weather is getting worse, and that makes it harder both to fly drones and to move troops on foot. We'll see if that holds into Winter.
Infantry tactics have largely formed into that high-low mix pioneered by Wagner at Bahkmut: shitters with two weeks training to do recon by death, halfway competent people to find the blind spots between firing positions and get into position to shoot at mortar and drone crews.
That being said, Russia's ability to do that effectively is very limited. They can take one or two sections of the front and make them exceptionally miserable to live on, while the rest gets just enough attention to keep Ukraine from pulling units to go to the hotspot.
That said, the overall plan is still "Monke says it's all gonna be fine, shut up and get on the motorcycle". They don't have a coherent plan for dealing with their economic woes beyond hoping that they can spam twitter hard enough to get sanctions lifted. The refinery strikes are still ongoing, and we'll see how heavily that impacts Winter quality of life, but I still hold to the idea that we shouldn't expect an end to the war until Putin dies and suddenly everyone discovers that he was a traitor and a saboteur.
