You said Russia had no reason to want western Ukraine, to which I responded with a reason to control food and implied that such would therefore be reason to want more. You brought up the Balkains and bundled them with Poland (for reasons I cannot infer determinitavely). Poland is a significant grain producer. The Balkans obviously not.
Russia was already the LARGEST grain exporter BEFORE the war began. With the Liberation of Eastern Ukraine, Russia will be EVEN LARGER.
They don’t need a bunch of yapping poodles, be them in Poland or the Baltics.