Russia has no intention of rebuilding Ukraine. The intention is to depopulate Ukraine, putting the people into slavery in Russia. That clears the land and waters for resource extraction, wheat, oil and gas.
About as subtle and civilized as a 17th century Boyar acquiring new land.
“..putting the people into slavery in Russia. “
More likely the pro-Globohomo Ukrainians join the millions who have already fled West.
If that was his actual motive, then he would have just carried on after invading Georgia during George W. Bush's last term, and annexing Crimea in the middle of Obama's second term. Why did he stop, when he'd already been shown that the west wasn't going to respond in kind? And in this case, if Putin really wanted to do what you claim he wants to do, it would have already happened. He's playing a cat an mouse game, having fun fighting another proxy war with the U.S., and watching her infrastructure crumble, her country taken over by illegals, and her government breaking the economy of the U.S.
Exactly right.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-is-russia-medvedev-reveals-imperial-ambitions-fueling-invasion/ Genocide, cultural if not 100% physical, is Moscow's final solution. For hundreds of years Ukrainians have spoken their own language and nurtured their own culture, and this is intolerable to Moscow.