A slightly radioactive Ukraine is worth more to him than losing his soldiers. Actually that isn't a bad thought other than the fact that we circle back to the complete and total nuclear Holocaust at that point and should this happen you can only expect Russian people to become targeted worldwide over the decision to attack the rest of the world. It is such a shame that listening even to a couple of minutes of Russian State media talking and the only thing you get out of it is a massive amount of threats for nuclear warfare.

Lolol at first they don't even care about their soldiers, then they want to save their soldiers, lolololo!