It's been a year and a half of Ukraine war, and you still talk about Russia not calling it a war, is some sort of mercy from Russia..
Russia is using all its Armour and artillery capability in the war.. It is refurbishing not just old T-72s (initially).. It is now refurbishing and fielding T-62s and T-55s now, getting weapons from Iran and ammo from North Korea [Not something to be ashamed of.. US is begging for ammo from half the countries around the world ].. Russia has shifted AD systems from Kuril islands, and also from the interior to the Ukraine theater..
Russia might call the Ukraine conflict their Mom's Bachelorette party, but it will not change the fact that it is a War being fought in Ukraine..
Russian Army and the 300k mobilized men are fully engaged in the war effort, either actively or as reserves.. Russia has been able to recruit and train another 250k this year, and Russia are pretty comfortable to sustain the current pace of attrition.. You need to remember that Russia is offering very attractive pay packages for the new recruits.. Ukraine, on the other hand is a bankrupt country that lives on handouts from the west.. so, you see Ukranians picked up and rounded up..
To take Odessa, with an invasion from the North, would probably take an initial assailt force of over half a million, and increase the rate of attrition of Russian troops by 10 times or more.. With elections next year, I don't see any such huge recruitment effort from Putin in the offing..
And leave old Akim alone dude..