Poland will retake Lwow, before Ukraine retakes Crimea.
If Trump becomes president, I would predict a cease-fire would be negotiated, and Russia will keep Crimea and some parts of eastern Ukraine. It seems pointless to risk a world war over these regions. Crimea as always been Russian except for the change of boundaries in postwar Soviet Union times when it really didn’t mean much. Russia has its naval bases there.
The real red line in this war is the Dneiper River and all of Ukraine west of that, and also north of Crimea. We certainly should not force Ukraine to cede anything in that large expanse.
This war has become largely pointless and nobody really knows where all the money is going, thousands are dying just to make a few sociopaths wealthy. And yet some neo-cons want to expand the war. I guess they have not made as much as they expected yet.
Kiow, too. At least that’s how it used to be spelled before Bill & Ted started sticking ‘Y’s into everything.