This is all evolving from the 8 year war in the Donbass region....and it's civil war.
You are one sick puppy. My wife is one of those Russian speakers from the Donbas (Alchevsk). Her family and friends have suffered greatly from the clandestine “separatists” invasion and Then from the all-February invasion. The proud Ukrainians in the Donbas speak Russian but are not Russians. It is so strange that you so flippantly dismiss Putin’s crimes.
In other words the Russians got thier asses kicked and withdrew.
It’s time to admit the Russians are getting their asses handed to them. They’ve accomplished nothing by this invasion but the blood hatred of them by Ukrainians.
Russia wanted it. They just lost. They are going to end up settling for what they could have gotten without blood shed.