quick three day operation

That's what General Milley told the US Congress to scare them into signing a blank cheque.

Nobody with any knowledge of modern warfare thought Russia's special operation force (outnumbered about 2 to 1) could take and hold Kiev against a first world, NATO trained army. It was a feint, and a successful one: Ukraine panicked and moved their forces from the Donbas up north to protect Kiev, allowing Russia to take their real target: Donbas and a land corridor to Crimea.

There is no doubt that the Ukrainian soldiers have been brave and fought hard. Even the hundreds of thousands of conscripts, most of whom have been sent to die with only a couple of weeks training. Lions commanded by fools and crack-heads, themselves puppets of the US and the globalists who don't care what happens to Ukraine. NATO considers Ukraine to be expendable, and they are spending Ukrainian lives as if they are worthless.

The Ukraine armed forces in 2022 and 23 have been very different from the unprofessional rabble of 2014, when the Ukrainian army abandoned Mariupol when attacked by the Novorossiya militia. This is why many people in Russia think Putin has made many mistakes in this war, starting with giving Mariupol back in 2014 and not taking the entire Donbas as well as Crimea.

Hell, in 2014 if Russia had been prepared to fight they might even have been able to take Kiev in three weeks. But that was then and this is now.