You really think people who are dragged to the trenches by press gangs [1] will "capture soil"? The video is by RFERL, BTW, as Western as it gets. Not "FSB propaganda".
You are peeing against the wind by talking logic here. I witnessed the same rabid propaganda by Americans for Iraq war and same rabid propaganda for Syrian war, for Libyan war, for Afghanistan...
They don't care. It's not their lives or their family or their land
The Ukrainians want their land and their people back. As long as they're willing to fight, I'll support them. The day they decide to give up and let the genocidal Russians sweep across their country, it'll be their decision.
Wow! It's crazy. Just think about - no Russian invasion equals no refugees. Isn't it mind-blowing? Russia is sadly a warmonger nation, apparently even more so than imperialist USA. Something that won't ever be forgotten now.
No, there's just so much propaganda-addled thinking floating about here that it's frankly exhausting to wade through, and as a result, I sometimes misread people.
The vastly bigger point is -- there's plainly no logic to the the primary implication you are attempting to posit here. Which, with only light paraphrasing, boils down to this:
"Russia hosts a large population of refugees from Ukraine; these of course being largely from the Russian-speaking population, which the Russian regime considers to be its own people. From this fact, therefore, Russian regime can't possibly be in the business of committing ethnic cleansing or other genocidal actions against the actual Ukrainian-speaking population of Ukraine."
They don't care. It's not their lives or their family or their land