This should send a clear message to Vlad, get out of Ukraine by spring or your army gets destroyed while being ejected from there. If you keep attacking Ukrainian cities after you are ejected from Ukraine, then they will unleash a torrent of drones on you, personally...
That might be part of the wait for spring message, there appears to be trouble at the very top of the Russian military effort and changes are afoot. It might be an effort to give them a chance to withdraw in good order, because the alternative could be a large scale catastrophe for them. That could lead to unexpected and unwanted consequences, desperate acts... Always leave a cornered rat a way out and this could be the way, leave now or suffer a humiliating total defeat with Belarus is as good as gone. Or pull out of all of Ukraine and try and hang onto Belarus which they are more or less occupying now. If Belarus goes, so too does Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast.
Even if Vlad were to pull out of Ukraine, his army has been so mauled and spent, it is a mere shadow of it's former corrupt self. It's equipment and ammo stocks have been depleted and it's officer corps decimated. It's confidence and moral has been shattered along with it's reputation and they won't be fit to attack anybody for a very long time. They cannot even produce what they need to field an army or fight a war, including personnel. The Europeans and others are now confident they could stop and defeat them on their own with conventional arms and allies, the bear is no longer feared by his neighbors.
