You are wrong in your assumption. I get no joy at the thought of Ukrainian defeat. I have visited Ukraine. I have Ukrainian friends, and friends who (until Russia's invasion) lived in Ukraine. I've never been to Russia, and have lost touch with my old Russian friends (including my second boxing coach who I respected greatly). I have much more personal connection to Ukraine than to Russia.

You are also wrong in definition of defeat. Defeat doesn't mean extermination. Fighting a battle to the death that you can't win means extermination. That is what the US pushed Ukraine into. Just like we have done so many times before.

Since Putin came to power 23 years ago, Russia has been involved in wars in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and now Ukraine. In none of the first two (noted that Syria shouldn't be included in all comparisons) has Russia done to what you claim will be done to Ukraine.

Ukraine actually understands this. That is why Ukraine and Russia have come so close to peace agreements multiple times since the invasion. The reason those peace plans fail is because the US doesn't want them to be successful. The US is funding this war. The US is arming Ukraine.

I believe that without the US pushing Ukraine, the Minsk accords would have been implemented, Ukraine would have remained with its 2014 borders, and the invasion would never have happened.

I don't rejoice in anything happening in Ukraine. It is a sickening loss of lives, limbs and futures. All easily avoided.