First, to those who say the Russian Army is doing terribly --- it's been one week. During the Iraq War, it took the US/UK/France three weeks to reach Baghdad. And Iraq wasn't getting a constant stream of weapons flown in.
Anyway, here is a battle map circulating on a Russian Telegram channel I found. Blood red areas are under Russian control while striped red areas are areas of active combat operations. Note that - related to my previous post - forces have already crossed the Transistria-Ukraine border. Whose are these? Russian or Transistrian? I don't know, I don't speak Russian. It appears, however, they're trying to take the coasts and cleave Ukraine in two by connecting their southern-driving columns from the North, and their northern-driving columns from the South. Once those columns meet, the eastern interior will be starved of outside assistance and will surrender.

If this comes to fruition, and I'm certain it will, you'll then have a landlocked rump state in Western Ukraine (which has no natural resources) based in Lviv. The per capita GDP of Ukraine right now is $3500. I would warrant the per capita GDP of a landlocked Western Ukraine rump state will be $2500. The poorest EU state (Bulgaria) has a per capita GDP of $11,150. And Ukraine has a population of 40 million, not 7 million like Bulgaria. Unless the EU thinks it can handle an absolute deluge of Ukrainian workers driving up unemployment and driving down wages, the Ukrainian rump state will never be joining the EU. And if it doesn't join the EU, it will be permanently poor. And if it's permanently poor, it can have a bought-and-paid for government that ensures its neutrality.
Don't believe the Western propaganda. Putin knows exactly what he's doing.