now wait a minute, jasmine. when did he say ukraine invaded russia? from everything i've seen, the statement has always been that ukraine could have avoided the war by ceding territory they'd already been fighting an ostensibly losing civil war in for the better part of... what, 7 years by that point? 8? but instead, it decided that it must meet military might with military might... that it didn't have. so they came scurrying to braindead biden, and now that he's gone, the prospect of winning this particular forever war has been shown to everyone to be literally 0. ukraine will, eventually, lose. if they keep fighting this way they lose EVERYTHING. russia will continue to invade, and once our funding and equipment have dried up, they will still need YEARS for the EU to catch up to our supplies. by then, kyiv will be Kiev forever.
sometimes, when you are the leader of a nation that does not have the military might to defend yourself... you just have to give up the bare minimum to keep your people safe and alive.