My impression is that you want Russia to annex Ukraine, which is what will happen if we stand aside. Providing Ukrainians are willing to fight, we can prevent Russia from taking over by giving them $1b or so in weaponry a year. Not even big ticket items - LAW's, Javelins and Stingers to bleed the Russians. Obviously, a little training in the basics of constructing IED's and carrying out RPG ambushes against Russian convoys and patrols would go a long way. These are our casualties from Iraq:
| ear | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 80 | 42 | 36 | 49 | 43 | 33 | 47 | 110 | 48 | 580 |
| 2004 | 52 | 23 | 52 | 140 | 84 | 50 | 58 | 75 | 87 | 68 | 141 | 76 | 906 |
| 2005 | 127 | 60 | 39 | 52 | 88 | 83 | 58 | 85 | 52 | 99 | 86 | 68 | 897 |
| 2006 | 64 | 58 | 34 | 82 | 79 | 63 | 46 | 66 | 77 | 111 | 78 | 115 | 873 |
| 2007 | 86 | 85 | 82 | 117 | 131 | 108 | 89 | 88 | 70 | 40 | 40 | 25 | 961 |
| 2008 | 40 | 30 | 40 | 52 | 21 | 31 | 13 | 23 | 25 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 322 |
| 2009 | 16 | 18 | 9 | 19 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 150 |
| 2010 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 60 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 54 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
If Ukrainians are able to send 100 Russians home in body bags a month, I expect Russian public opinion will eventually buckle and force Putin to do a U-turn.
The good number of Ukrainians (citizens of Ukraine) ARE Russians (in ethnic sense).
The Russians you want to kill are citizens of Ukraine, not Russia.
Continuous display of dead Russians will enrage Russian public to urge Putin to step in and chop off 75% of Ukraine populated by the Russians and leave the 25% (part of pre-WWII Poland) to the West.