So if Ukraine will retreat in few days you'd concede that this operation was a failure?
Repeat after me: 3 days operation!
1. Georgia attacked Russians
2. Syria invited Russia
3. Chechenia is part of Russia,
4. Mali...well, tell me do you support UK and French neocolonialism there, then we can talk about it
Also in this alternate history Poland attacked the USSR starting ww2.
Btw, why did you skip Afghanistan , didn't get the memo with the explanation in time?