[dfwgator]

I believe the only solution is for Ukraine to split up.

Besides much of Western Ukraine was formerly Polish, so they should join Poland in the EU.

The battle will be over who gets the Crimea, that could be the sticky point.

[Grzegorz 246]

Better that than Syrian style civil war, however any changes of borders in Europe are risky (Kosovo nonsense was more than enough) and could trigger off nasty events, additionally if the country was divided, some of the regions would fall under Russian control and that's no good for anyone representing “western” interests. What's more, there's no simple way to divide the country, there's no clear east/west division, there are at least 4-5 regions, each presenting different approach and only 2 of them are relatively homogeneous, so making several countries out of it, each with own army/security forces could easily end up like partition of Yugoslavia did. So dividing the country should be last chance solution, better keep it in one piece. Personally I think that recent events might be provoked by Russia to divide the country, break off Crimea and possibly some of the eastern regions. Yank is gone but it is not over yet, very far from it.