[tlozo]

Using landmass as a metric of determining one country’s “heroism” when fighting another country has no rational basis.

You're conveniently ignoring the rest of the post:

When it comes to ground forces, Ukraine only has around 1,117 infantry fighting vehicles, 368 main battle tanks, and 268 armored personnel carriers, whereas Russia has 17,677 infantry fighting vehicles, and 17,370 main battle tanks, and 14,991 armored personnel carriers. The number of aircraft at the disposal of the Russian army was close to 4.2 thousand, while Ukrainian armed forces possessed almost 320 aircraft.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Which, to my prior point, conveniently ignores all NATO support given to Ukraine in terms of soft and hard power.