Yeah, only a fraction of the soldiers originally sent in were conscripts, which is their problem now. Their losses were extremely high among the professional soldiers, because those were the guys they were relying on to do the majority of the fighting. Trying to win by replacing quality with quantity means more logistical support which requires more convoys and all the things Russia has proven really bad at doing, and with a heavily conscripted army, at the end of that logistical chain is a bunch of guys who aren't terribly useful in a fight anyway. It appears that they've been pushing badly battered units back into combat rather than fresh conscripts, which speaks to how little they think of the conscripts.
Russia is going to mass the troops for one big push to try and cut off the pocket of the Ukrainian Army in the Donbas, and they might be able to achieve that. But they have a pretty limited window before the start running low on actually useful soldiers, and the further they push, the more difficult it becomes to maintain their supply lines, and the more vulnerable their convoys become. Which is exactly what happened to them west of Kyiv, and that ended with them having to retreat in a hurry (and leave a lot of stuff behind) because their attempted encirclement was running our of fuel and ammo and was in danger of getting encircled.
