they never planned on it, thats amerikike propaganda. jewkraine and gayto violated minsk agreement, provoked russia into war, and planned to use ukraine as operations state while also antagonizing Crimea. It is a war of attrition and ukraine is out of men, money, etc for a long time at this point. Even msm is now admitting this. Russia will continue as long as they need because jewkraines kike handlers wont allow peace treaty so now russia will continue to advance until total capitulation