I think Russia has massively miscalculated this one and will be the end of Putin. Terrible for Ukrainians and really depresses me thinking what they are, and will endure however has united the west and got rid of complacency about Russia. The sanctions will fuck them and wars are expensive. The population also won’t stand for the restrictions on freedoms they now know and he won’t be able to consistently suppress them all forever.
Ukrainians fighting to the last and always will so no way can he prop up with any meaning with a puppet leader. Just look at bravery and rejection in the cities the Russians have taken.
I don’t know enough to be sure and taking information like many others from the news only.