It’s been four full years of/since February 24, 2022 when russian reich openly invaded Ukraine with boisterous claims that they’ll take Kyiv in three days and the rest of territory in a week. They wanted small victorious special military operation but something went wrong. Despite having much larger territory, population, economy, more allies and being prepared for it they still failed to achieve their goals—and by those I mean their real goals of occupying and fully annihilating Ukraine, using its resources (people included) to continue a war on other territories; their declared goals change depending on the situation at the frontline (or as one of them said, the goal of it will be formulated when it’s over).
Nobody believed that Ukraine would stand and yet it does despite all the help russia receives from its allies like Belarus, China, DPRK, Iran, and, apparently, USA. The situation is far from being good, with russian attacks targeting almost exclusively civilian targets, currently trying to leave Ukrainian cities without electricity and heating during the extremely cold weather. And yet Ukraine stands.
At least this war exposed some things: that russians are no people (not because of some biological differences, mind you, they lack moral qualities that make humans humans and not just slightly smarter primates), that their money (or natural resources) buy affection indeed (often enough to close eyes to russian transgressions and atrocities—there are enough countries and international organisations serving as an example), and that it’s apparently contagious (just look at the USA that resembles russia even more with each passing day).
I’m not optimistic about the future but I really hope that Ukraine will stand and russia will fall down (despite efforts of USA to preserve it—not for the first time too). Only this way we’ll get some peace—until people forget and let another bully run unopposed.