why is russia friendly with belarus but not ukraine?

[Anonymous]

"Sergey Surovikin, the new commander of the Russian army in Ukraine, does not rule out making "difficult decisions" regarding the future arrival of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in occupied Kherson."
"Further actions regarding Kherson will depend on the emerging military-tactical situation; it is not easy, difficult decisions cannot be ruled out."
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-occupiers-increasingly-afraid-kherson-182147356.html

"The Russians continue to mine everything along the contact zone: bridges, roads, and buildings; in particular, we have information that they are already mining access roads to the cities of Svatove and Kreminna."
https://news.yahoo.com/russians-mining-roads-leading-svatove-071845239.html

If a soldier does not want to be on the front line, he just has to pay and will be taken to the rear,” StatCom said.
Russian officers want RUR 5,000 (about $80) per night for such a service,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-officers-bribes-soldiers-wanting-140400738.html

The real reason why Putin invoked Martial Law:

"Putin didn’t provide details of the extra powers the heads of Russian regions will have under his decree. However, the order states that measures envisaged by martial law could be introduced anywhere in Russia “when necessary.”"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-declares-martial-law-annexed-120231919.html

"We want respect. Nothing else. Respect," said Emomali Rakhmon, Tajikistan's president
"For the moment we see Russia is ceding to China this role as major patron for the Central Asian states. The vacuum will not be unfilled – it will be filled step-by-step by China."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/want-respect-putins-authority-tested-075443340.html

Speaking of China, the Mavic 3 mentioned in the following article is made by DJI, a Chinese company.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-drones-almost-200-ukrainian-102200748.html

"Kommersant states that before Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine the defect rate in imported silicon was two percent. Since that war commenced, Russian manufacturers have apparently faced 40 percent failure rates."
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/18/russia_china_semiconductro_failure_rates/

"The Justice Department charged nearly a dozen people in separate cases in New York and Connecticut, including Russian nationals accused of purchasing sensitive military technologies from U.S. companies and laundering tens of millions of dollars for wealthy Russian businessmen; Latvians accused of conspiring to smuggle equipment to Russian and oil brokers for Venezuela accused of working on illicit deals for a Venezuelan state-owned oil company."
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-latvia-government-and-politics-nuclear-proliferation-a1dff9aa93f491c72e5216e4e4ecb457

Makes you wonder - was the US DoJ that good, or are the Russian spies finally realizing their information has an expiration date?