Refugee and resupply crises puts a burden on your enemies. We have it in the United States too. Our foreign and domestic enemies filled our cities with non-productive "refugees" who are supported with trillions of taxpayer dollars.
Atlanta
Baltimore
Buffalo
Camden
Cincinnati
Detroit
East St. Louis
Ferguson
Fresno
Houston
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Lexington
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Minneapolis
Modesto
Nashville
Newark
New York City
Oakland
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Portland
Rochester
San Francisco
Seattle
St. Louis
Tallahasee
Tucson
etc.
“Why take a city you don’t need? Kiev has been reduced to a financial and logistical drain on Ukraine and the EU.”
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True, with Zelinsky now saying they’ll give up any NATO hopes there would be no sense for Russia waste any time and personnel when your goal is met. Putin’s got his own cities to tend to the way it is, without becoming the Uke’s landlord.