After the US backed Maidan coup, Ukraine attacked and killed ethnic Russians in Ukraine, outlawed their language, customs, religion, and threatened to bring NATO weapons to Russia's border.
Russia attempted dialog with the US, who dismissed and ignored Russian proposals and refused to negotiate. Russia invaded with a small force to demonstrate they were serious, not to conquer or destroy Ukraine, but to bring the US to negotiate. Instead, the US, using their UK puppet BoJo, convinced the green goblin Zelensky to not sign any peace agreement and continue the war even after both Russia and Ukraine were close to a deal brokered in/by Turkiye.
Once Putin realized the US and the West lied in the Minsk accords, destroyed nordstreams, he was left will little choice but to escalate, and protect the ethnic Russians in Ukraine, and make them part of Russia.
The EU still wants war in Ukraine; Ukraine is kidnapping men and boys on the streets and sending them to the front; 100s of thousands of Ukrainian men have been killed; 70% of women in German brothels are Ukrainian, and they are being trafficked around the world.
Then there are the Ukrainian nazis that Ukraine supporters always forget, including our own ruling parasite demoncrats and neocon RINOs.
Russian victory was inevitable from the start, unless the West wants to start a nuclear WW3; seems like the EU wants that; and we all know how much Europeans love their world wars and invasions of each other since the middle ages.