Ukraine is an absolute cluster**** right now...anyone who thinks its some bastion of freedom and democracy is gravely mistaken. It is essentially one of the poorest, most oppressive, most disgustingly corrupt countries on the planet at the moment...and it absolutely needs to be allowed to disintegrate into its more-or-less "natural" parts, so some kind of recovery can begin.
Ukraine will never be more than a welfare state as the leadership and manner of governance simply dances around requirements to be a Nato country. They never really change.
The Ukraine is a region not a nation. It isn’t like in “Risk.”