Also Ukraine has massive coal reserves (that's where the name Donbas comes from) and some of the richest agricultural land in the world.
This assumes that Russia tries to capture and hold ground though and we've seen how insurgency wars have worked out for the Russians and Americans for the last 3 decades.
This assumes that Russia tries to capture and hold ground though and we've seen how insurgency wars have worked out for the Russians and Americans for the last 3 decades.