If they do take Ukraine,
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Vlad is not after occupying Ukraine. Read his speech, ( most have not, they prefer the corrupted MSM agenda). Vlad will do as he said he will, then leave keeping the Russian provinces ( Donbas).
He will need Mariupol if he wands a land bridge through the Pro-Russian Donbas into Russian-held Crimea, hence the heavy fighting. Kiev is just a bargaining chip, something he’ll concede to win peace and ease the sanctions.
I can’t accurately predict what Putin will do once he has achieved Ukrainian soil. This was a medieval conquest on an industrial level. Maybe he will turn the entire country into plantations and use people as slaves to produce crops as a source of income (my prediction). The bombing was the demolition program.