Absolutely, but if you have one regardless, it’s much better to finish it properly the first time around, so you don’t have to do the same thing twice.

Aleppo and Homs come to mind

Have they been successfully liberated from the scourge of Al Nusra front and the moderate rebels of the Free Syrian Army?

The fact is, the country responsible for razing entire cities to the ground is not Ukraine. Russian incompetence tore down Mariupol, not ukrainian resistance.

If Mexico occupied half of the arizona desert and the US counterattacked a few months later and retook it, would you describe the US as “conquering”?