In the current situation, most of the people in the world are looking for the answer to this question. But no one has the answer to this. It hurts both countries, every country in the world knows this. Everyone wants it to stop. Because peace is the only solution to every problem. I am Indian and an ardent worshiper of peace. And pray to my God that this war will end soon.
At this point I think we can safely assume the war is not going to be over until Putin obtains whatever he wants out of Ukraine, if he cared about the Russian citizens, soldiers and the citizens of Ukraine at all then this war would not have begun or at least it would have been over long ago, so the only valid theory that remains over the table is that Putin will stop at nothing to get exactly what he wants, even if he has to ruin both Russia and Ukraine in the process.