Kiev is facing Ukraine’s disintegration. Events seem to be taking on a life of their own without any prompting from Russia.
If this spreads, Kiev will find itself ruling over a shrunken country of less than 20 million or so centered on the West.
What can it do about it? Force is out of the question. Ukraine will have to become a federal state with both Ukrainian and Russian enjoying official status, with full autonomy for all its regions.
There is no alternative. Unless Kiev wants to see large chunks of the country lost to Russia.
Borders have shifted in that part of the world for thousands of years.
What makes today’s borders so sacrosanct compared to the previous ones?
Are humans today so much more enlightened than before? Doubtful.