Shame…

I dunno how intentional this was on Kremlin’s part, but yeah - I would be over here praying the EU does this if I still believed in God.

Eh. Before work isn’t much better, really. Living in interesting times means there is no good time for news, I guess.

Will Ukraine fight until the AFU collapses?

Most likely.

Will there be a coup?

Like, a pro-Russian one? Most unlikely.

Would a pro russian or neutral ukraine be established across all of what is currently the Ukraine, or will there be an attempt to make a “taiwan-ified” state in the west?

Strategically speaking, Russia needs the most industrialized regions and the entire shoreline. Demilitarization of the rest too. Which way what remains of “independent” Ukraine leans doesn’t matter a lot at that point, only that it remains. But it might be better for Russia, if it’s westward, so that Russia doesn’t have to rebuild at least that. Neutral status on paper though.

Which way what remains of “independent” Ukraine leans doesn’t matter a lot at that point, only that it remains.

I should clarify. That’s because the Russian government is clearly trying to do it “right”. SMO isn’t breaking international law, which is why there aren’t any sanctions, like, UN ones, only unilateral restrictions from individual countries(which are, ironically, illegal). Annexation of Ukraine wasn’t in the declared goals at any point. And leaving it be, albeit demilitarized, would be the final nail in the coffin of already ridiculous genocide allegations. Good for propaganda in a different way too. Independent Ukraine is yet another entity people in the West that have a good idea of what’s going on can point at as an example of NATO using up it’s supposes allies and leaving them the worse for wear, whereas annexing the entire thing just adds to the rUsSiAn ImPeRiAlIsT cOnQuErErS narrative, even if Ukraine asks for it till the end.