>The point was to remove the NATO puppet regime in Ukraine and replace it with a Russian puppet regime. Putin literally said this. Pay attention.
He never said anything about ruling over a ruined and barren city. It was a Pyrrhic victory.
I'm all for Russia but this kind of tactic will take years and billions to repair, and the Kremlin is short on cash and low on morale. I dunno man this situation is FUBAR regardless of what happens.