Personally i don't think it will end soon.. As ukraine swore to fight back..it not an easy task for Putin to withdraw their troops without any gains either.
There is a short quote that I find to be an amazingly accurate and thorough description of the Russian mentality:
“Incredibly determined and resourceful in setting and achieving their goals - goals which lack any rational logic behind them” (as succinctly put by modern Russian literary author Lyudmila Ulitskaya, spea...