According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, its four main objectives in the next phase are:

Taking over Donbas
Creating a land corridor from there to Crimea
Blockading Ukrainian Black Sea ports
Taking control of southern Ukraine and creating an exit to Transnistria


Still the EU are feeding the Putin slaughter machine with 500 million per day for Natural Gas. Do we never learn!! It may cripple some Western economies like Germany say some - oh what a shame! The West therefore can't keep moaning when the wheels of the Putin slaughter machine keep rolling and rolling paid for by our lovely EU friends.