Russia tried to avoid involving in Donbass for 8 years meddling with Minsk-2. It's still not sure if it will take Donbass. All the new captured parts of Ukrain

Russia tried to avoid involving in Donbass for 8 years meddling with Minsk-2. It's still not sure if it will take Donbass. All the new captured parts of Ukraine are becoming new or join existing "People's Republics". I won't be surprised if after the end of campaign, there still will be independent republics and some shaky agreement that will be broken by Ukraine in the first week. Even first plan was apparently to overthrow government, not to gain some land. On other hand, the tactics of West/Zelensky is to destroy the East as much as possible, killing as many people as possible, destroying as much infrastructure as possible.