In the propaganda being produced by the West, sure, but in reality not at all. No one was claiming Ukraine would fall in 72 hours before the invasion; JCS as the invasion began was predicting Kiev would fall in 72-96 hours, but that's not the same as the country at all. Ukraine is the largest country in Europe and has the largest Army, if you exclude Russia itself; acting like its a failure by Russia to conquer it all in less than two weeks when it took the United States a full month to take Iraq in 2003 is the only thing laughable here.
Did Rusia stumble in the opening days? Without question, but it was not because of a lack of capabilities but because of planning; they made the intentional decision of limiting strikes and withholding key abilities precisely because they wanted to limit civilian and even Ukrainian military losses. This was shown most obviously in the complete lack of targeting of military barracks, for example. Now, however, the gloves are off and its showing how wrong this analysis of "crappy military performance" is:
All but two roads into Kyiv have been cut, with the Ukrainians themselves now admitting the Russians are positioning themselves to complete the encirclement. There is a reason we are seeing a storm of news articles about the Western Powers already turning their focus to insurgency and government in exile.
As part of the above, Sumy and Chernihiv have been encircled with an indeterminate amount of Ukrainian military. Food supplies have already been exhausted in Sumy and the noose is tightening.
Mariupol, with a garrison possibly as strong as 7,000 has been encircled and now the Russians have secured the outer suburbs.
Kharkov appears to be surrounded, and the Russians are pushing fast on Izyum to cut the LOCs into the Donbass. The JTO represents the largest grouping of Ukrainian forces, at somewhere between 45,000 to possibly as high as 75,000 personnel. In the next three to five days, it will either have to retreat in the open under murderous Russian fire or it will be encircled and destroyed. Everything east of the Dnieper will collapse regardless of which occurs, but if it is the former then the Russians now have a free hand to advance on Lviv and take Odessa.