Russia is currently struggling to make inroads on invading its relatively small neighbor, so I really doubt it would be able to make a bunch of nuclear powers who have a nuclear alliance its "vassal"
I understand that Russia's not fighting just Ukraine but rather Ukraine with massive US and EU assistance but my point still stands.
Ukraine doesn't have that "benefit".
Also the EU pays for countries like Turkey and Libya to prevent refugee ships from coming to their continent. If that means sinking those ships with people on them, well...
That the west is also doing some bad stuff (though really in the EU we're not that bad IMO, most EU countries recognise Palestina now, it's just for a few blocking hard measures against Israel) isn't really a relevant topic in this. We're not going to have boots on the ground in this conflict until an agreement is reached because of the risk of escalation.
OK but Ukraine isn't trying to invade a small country next door and claim a global superpower status.
It's expected they would struggle against a much larger neighbor invading them.
Russia is struggling where nobody expected it to struggle.
People really don't understand war and death, they treat them as some silly sports game. As a result they completely miss the boat not only about military conflicts but also about peace politics.
That's why democracies are so good. Because it's hard to do too stupid things in them persistently.