That is the obvious truth. Why would Russia want to conquer territories beyond their aligned ethnic Russian allies? If the goal is to destroy the Ukrainian military, they are drawing them east now to do just that.
It is not smart for Russia to expand a military reach into areas whose people will be forever hostile to a Russian presence.
The ignorance in this entire conflict is to think Ukraine is one united people. This is the fraud perpetrated by the globalists and neocons as an excuse to target and destroy Russia which has been their TRUE goal from the outset.
In Western Ukraine, the ethnic Polish people would welcome Poland’s annexation of that region just as those in the Donbas have welcomed assimilation into Russia.
Ukrainians are being slaughtered to pursue the globalists’ dreams of destroying Russia and plundering its resources. Ukrainians are just pawns and expendable cannon fodder to these lunatics. That is why no rational peace deal can be permitted by the globalist tyrants.
No deal allowing Russia to survive can be tolerated by such irrational, globalist warmongers.
“It is not smart for Russia to expand a military reach into areas whose people will be forever hostile to a Russian presence.”
They’re kind of forced into it, since NATO will use whatever is left of Ukraine to turn it into a forward attack base (as they were in the process of doing a year ago, just prior to the beginning of the liberation of Ukraine).
How, exactly, the Russians end the war is, thankfully, their choice, but it will only end when Russia feels safe enough from NATO aggression to not need more territory.