I think the best deal would be Russia agrees to allow Ukraine to join the EU and NATO in exchange for getting Crimea and Donetsk region.
If I were the Ukrainians, I make that deal in a heartbeat.
Crimea legitimately should belong to Russia, it was only a drunken, impulsive decision by Khrushchev, back in the days when it really didn’t matter which Soviet Socialist Republic it belonged to.
EIther way, it’s none of our business, and we should let events take their course.
“I think the best deal would be Russia agrees to allow Ukraine to join the EU and NATO in exchange for getting Crimea and Donetsk region.”
The problem for Ukraine is that a majority of it’s wealth and industry is in the Donetsk region.