The purpose of Russia's occupation is genocidal: to erase Ukrainian language, culture, identity, memory and systematically loot art treasures through mass deportations of children and adults, torture in filtration camps and mass theft. It has no military purpose whatsoever. Listen to Anne Applebaum and the witnesses to channel check a murderous occupation:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/russia-ukraine-war-potemkin-occupation-murder-torture/672841/

https://www.thereckoningproject.com/projects

Like the Anglo-Americans who refused to see the Holocaust was happening in 1942-44, you're desperate to unsee what's right in front of you.