@m0xee @VikingChieftain @rvps2001 who do you mean by 'they'? It's likely better for Russia if the parts of Ukraine, that Russia doesn't want, would remain "Ukraine". This rump state can be uniquely burdened with obligations and monitored so that it obeys them, and strict immigration controls can try to keep extremists on its side of the border, rather than leaving them to perform post-war terrorism in Malorussia with CIA finding.

A Malorussia + Poland + Hungary style breakup, leaving nothing left, would be satisfying in a way but would also prevent such post-war obligations, with extremists forming special combat groups in Poland instead of getting oppressed by a humiliated government with a constitution drafted in Moscow.