It doesn't benefit, it actively harms the Ukrainian people.

Their country is already destroyed, and it's going to get 10x worse. Millions displaced, hundreds of thousands dead. Cities destroyed. Economy in shreds. All for the "freedom" to join NATO, which Russia was never going to allow to happen, as they've been saying since the 90s.

We have a perfect example of what happens when a war like this is lost by the US puppet wanting to join NATO: Georgia in 2008. Georgia is a peaceful country with a growing GDP, pretty much free of Russian meddling, because Russia doesn't fucking care about what sort of corrupt idiots anyone wants to elect as long as they want trade and graft instead of NATO.

The only Ukrainians who would have lost had Ukraine surrendered are the functionaries of the Zelensky regime. And also the coked-up muppet with delusions of grandeur himself.

But having the regime lose is not the same thing as having your country destroyed