The Fact is , as enunciated by Putin , the SMO is all about demilitarizing and De Nazifying Ukraine. Ukraine is cooperating with the SMO by committing their military to the Russian meat grinder.
On the morning of February 24, Russia officially launched a "special military operation" against Ukraine, designed, as Russian President Vladimir Putin explained, to "demilitarize" and "denazify" the neighboring state. The goal of the operation is to protect the people of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), he said. https://tass.com/pressreview/1410663