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> It cannot be resolved. No war between global/nuclear powers, and Ukraine suffers from a power vacuum, which allowed Russia to move her foot in. Maybe one day Russia will claim the whole country. But I don't think she will in the near future. This tension is just too good for every participants to end it. Like all the things all over the globe that never gets resolved.
Ukraine isn't a nuclear power and this situation is not like Syria or Yemen. The Russians cannot allow it to sit and fester. The Russians have built up a large force and put on a show of strength to threaten the west, they have also been putting out a lot of propaganda about how Ukraine is a threat, it's going to develop nukes, it's genociding Russians, it should not even exist, etc so to back down now with no real result would be a huge loss of face. Ukraine is still a threat and supporting Donetsk and Luhansk as independent nations does not change that. What it does mean however is that there is now no way of forcing a Minsk 2, that's over as is any diplomatic solution.
The problem is that if they back down or even if they move in and take Luhansk and Donetsk, Ukraine still exists, only now it's angry and so is the west. They are going to keep strengthening their army only now with renewed vigour and even more help from the west, we may even see a Ukraine with Patriot missiles and modern fighters. Russia has to take Ukraine out of the equation entirely and now is their best chance to do it.