Meet you for a beer either way next march.
The worst thing for the Kremlin is that they will absolutely not be able to hide what is really going on.
Ukraine is letting captured soldiers call home. The ones that die will never do so again, and that will be very clear to those mothers as well.
Many many people have relatives in Ukraine. Those relatives will be among the victims of the clusterbombs, thermobaric rockets, and massed artillery barrages that will level the cities.
Everyone in Russia will know SOMEONE who dies in this conflict. Russia is trying to shut out the outside world, but these deaths will literally be impossible to hide.