Except there is no desire to destroy Russia, but Russia does want to destroy Ukraine.
Wrong.
There has long been a desire to destroy Russia. Start with Ziggy and his chess game.
Russia doesn’t want western Ukraine. Just the east and over to Odessa. Its already mostly ethnic Russian. The Ukrainians would just continue killing them, along with the Roma and Hungarians for not being pure Ukrainian.
Putin offered the western areas to Poland and it is an idea some Poles appear to like. He absolutely doesn’t want to deal with western Ukrainian pure blood freaks.
” but Russia does want to destroy Ukraine.”
Link please.