> Did it?

Yes. 600,000+ Russian soldiers dead or wounded:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/us/politics/russia-casual...

A generation of Russian men wiped out in a pointless, needless war of choice waged for one man's vanity.

The war can end tomorrow. All Russia needs to do is get out of Ukraine. All of it.

Simple to do, easy to achieve. No more Russians need to die.