The hurricane only gets downgraded after it has made land fall and pushed into land not having warm waters to grow and maintain its original strength, but the devastation from the winds rain and storm surge and the terrible storms a hurricane makes over land destroys hundreds to thousands of miles/kilometers of land and towns in its path.
You are from the Ukraine and never had a Hurricane experience but let me share a concept with you about a hurricane force. Say any city in the Ukraine was leveled to the ground in a matter of an hour where it takes Putin and his Army to do that in months of attacks and bombings, the hurricane does it all within an hour.
Like I said the down grading is only done once the hurricane has been over land and pushed into and over the continent. Heck Hurricane Helene and Milton were large storms than the country of Switzerland in size. Think a a storm bigger than small countries coming in with terrible devastating damage.
Saying it is hype is like saying it is Hype over Putin's war.
