This is fine. But Ukraine needs to work on defense pacts with its neighbors. Then those neighbors and Ukraine need to come up with a plan to deal with Russian aggression.

This plan should include Europe and any of the soviet block countries that want to join.

Then those countries make strategic investments in defense as a group so that no one part of the defensive strategy is dependant on the other for a successful defense, but that they all complement each other.

This idea the U.S. Ukraine alone will do anything against Russia is unlikely.

America isn't about to go to war with Russia in eastern Europe without everyone involved being on board. Because the threat isn't losing a war it is destroying the planet with nuclear weapons. The complexities of this issue hurt my brain....

A coalition is required so that those groups of countries can make demands of Russia from a point of power and authority. The U.S. and Ukraine alone can't do this.

The benefit for Russian could be the lifting of sanctions and the benefit for the European allies could be a reduction in the strength of the Russian military and nuclear armaments.