Ukraine plainly is not alone.
But there is in any case no way that Putin can conquer the country.
He'd need about 100,000 troops at conservative estimates to take it.
He can bomb it, but it's massive
He can surround it and starve it but as things stand Kyiv is far from surrounded.
19 days in and only one city of any significance has fallen, and even there the people are in open, unarmed rebellion, as they also are in Melitopol, Berdyansk and doubtless other places.
I listened to a Ukrainian soldier bfing interviewed by Sky reported in Obolon', Kyiv: she was more or less telling him Ukraine couldn't win,
Embarrassing.
Sounds like a false flag operation in Donetsk.
A Ukrainian SS-21 supposedly falling in the city centre. Hmm.