But it's an apt comparison. Putin's Russia had prepared 40,000 body bags, mobile crematoriums, and had updated mass grave standards ahead of what they had believed was going to be a low casualty operation for taking over Ukraine. There's just no way of going about it: Russia was prepared to commit mass wholesale genocide of Ukrainians. The only reason why he had not succeeded was Ukrainian resolve and western weapons which they were armed with. Otherwise we'd be witnessing Katyn 2.0 from satellite view.