It looks like Putin has unleashed war without end in Ukraine. This will not be resolved any time soon.
Ukrainians will only take so much. The Russian mercenaries were denied local support during the Donetsk airport fiasco. While it may take time for the new national government to get it’s ducks in a row, it will happen. If they were smart, they’d buy the mercenaries off and send them back into Russia with their weapons. Putin apparently never learned the lesson inflicted on us when we armed the Afghans. Now he’s arming Chechens. That’s guaranteed to bite him in the ass.