Well, tbf, Russia invaded Ukraine, not vice versa, which thus wouldn't allow them to deploy their secret big assed weapon, AKA winter, which, as Hitler and Napolean found out the cold way, is the only way that dusty heap of rust 'wins' wars,,,
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Putin actually managed to pull a reverse Napoleon in all this. He was so obsessed with the political timing of his attack that he completely neglected to account for the Ukrainian seasonal thawing in February that makes a lot of the roads basically frost-shattered and unusable. Sitting ducks for Ukrainian artillery.
He waited for the deep freeze to set in before invading, was he banking on spring never returning?
Afghanistan should have taught him that ops aren't always a wrap in just two weeks.