https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-bor...
> They'll never join EU or NATO.
That would probably be a good thing. Russia doesn't want NATO to advance to its border, doing so is just provoking them, as it has before Ukraine: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/27/ukraine-drops-...
> Ukraine was considered a potential Nato partner along with Georgia. Concern in many Nato countries increased in 2008 when Russia responded with military force to a Georgian attack on South Ossetia, an enclave in Georgia.
> [..]
> Since then, most Nato countries, including the US and Britain, have realised membership of Ukraine and Georgia would provoke conflict, notably with Russia. This month, the Albright report on Nato's new strategic concept made no mention of prospective Ukrainian membership of the alliance.
It became pretty clear in this war that refusing Ukraine was a mistake and caused the war.
If Ukraine will stop fighting their independence and the country is over.
They'll never join EU or NATO. There will be no investments to rebuild.
People who left will never return back.