It's likely now that Ukraine will end up getting split into two countires. To Russia Ukraine is a safety buffer between it and the EU, it's a matter of national

It's likely now that Ukraine will end up getting split into two countires. To Russia Ukraine is a safety buffer between it and the EU, it's a matter of national security. Russia simply won't let Ukraine go, not without imposing severe economic sanctions, so Ukraine will suffer the split from Russia far more than it suffers now. On the other end, EU won't likely accept Ukraine with such sanctions attached. They already have Germany paying for Greece, Spain and Italy. Getting another mouth to feed will be hard to impossible to justify, regardless of how noble the motives are. It's a stalemate. The only way forward for Ukraine is to let Russia have its safety buffer. If they want to join EU, they will have to split.