How would Ukraine have more territory when the reason Putin said he needed to invade was to take territory away from Ukraine to protect ethnic Russians?
Because they would have had a peace deal back in 2022, and that peace deal was with more territory than Ukraine currently has, and Ukraine was also in a better negotiating position.
How would Ukraine have more territory when the reason Putin said he needed to invade was to take territory away from Ukraine to protect ethnic Russians?
Because they would have had a peace deal back in 2022, and that peace deal was with more territory than Ukraine currently has, and Ukraine was also in a better negotiating position.
That isn’t true. The peace deal left eastern Ukraine undecided.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine-peace-deal-2022-document-6e12e093
I looked at the exact peace lines it was going to be at, and the lines were better back then than they are right now.