I get what you are syaing. Truth is a horrible thing. The truth here is that Ukraine can not acheive it's original borders prior to 2014 and what it achieved in 2023. They are losing ground and the public is getting sick of the conscriptions. When Pokrovsk falls...it's over.
I think what people do not understand is that this has essentially been a civil war since 2014. It's old school Cossack based and a disaster in Europe. The area had/has a very large Russian population and much of the Donbass area had been a Russian and Ukranian mob area since Independance(and prior).
I hope everyone will understand that Russia could have annihilated Ukraine in the very beginning. That would have had a completely different reaction though ;)
Europe fucked up ....just prior to the event....and years prior(mainly). And we certainly didn't help because apparently...we didn't have the skin for it.
The whole thing sucks and I want it to end before Kellog leaves his appointment. And trust me...it's always about the Cossacks in that region(both Russian and Ukranian). They always start trouble.