This is again wrong. Like all European nations under Russian or Austrian and Ottoman empires, Ukrainians created their own democratic state after WW1. Ukrainia

This is again wrong. Like all European nations under Russian or Austrian and Ottoman empires, Ukrainians created their own democratic state after WW1. Ukrainian People's Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic In fact, current Ukraine is successor of this state. I do not know what in your mind are European interests but to me it is wider acceptance of European ideas - building prosperous democratic societies. European leaders believed that deeper integration of Russia with Europe will help it to move exactly in this direction. Instead it milked Europe to build an army to destroy it. Russia did not attack Ukraine because its resources, it attacked it because it was moving too close to Europe and became too Unrussia. With some exceptions, Europe is a union of democratic nation states, and in fact some of its members splitting up into multiple nation states would only strengthen it. Ukraine is perfectly fine for Europe and joining the union through the accession process will make it much better country.