They did stop. How do you think defensive lines are dug?

Terminal Marvelbrain

Zelenksy tried to surrender. Boris Johnson derailed those talks to keep the war going.

They've literally constantly offered offramps toward de-escalation. Two negotiated ceasefires were broken by ukrainian state backed militias in donbass before the war started.

But I've been told the Russian army is out of missiles and teetering on the brink of collapse again, now you're saying they're simultaneously a force capable of posing a realistic threat of invasion to...uh, the entire rest of the planet, apparently?

go fight them then.

You should volunteer if you think it's this important to fight Russia