Russia will probably keep grinding trying to close the pocket and trap the Ukrainian army, but at their current pace that's going to take weeks to months, for what is ultimately a tiny bit of land (something like 30km x 30km).
Unfortunately the defenders' advantage that Ukraine had in terms of casualties earlier in the war seems to have mostly disappeared. Even Ukrainian leadership is now saying 100-200 are being KIA per day (which implies 500-1000 total casualties per day) and the US is estimating that overall military losses are now fairly similar between the two countries.
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