Chechnya not a country? Only in the fascist minds of putin and other Russian autocrats. "His reasons" are nothing short of Hitler's, absent the professional military and the sick ideology. If putin has the right to destroy Mariupol because of his security concerns than NATO has the right to destroy Moscow because of theirs. In truth his reasons, his excuses, his fever dreams are all irrelevant. setting one military boot, firing one missile or shell into Ukraine is the war crime of aggression, as established by the Nuremburg Nazi trials. Nuremburg is closed for business but the Hague is still active and putin belongs in a glass cage on trial there, and then the inadequate but unavoidable sentence of life imprisonment. And real justice would find him at the end of a rope with a too short fall to break his neck.