If the Kremlin’s forces succeed in conquering major Donbas cities such as Severodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast or Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast, Russia could wind up controlling and possibly annexing territory east of a line running from Kharkiv in the north to Kherson in the south. If Russia can focus all its forces on the southern cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv, it could establish a corridor along the rim of the Black Sea that effectively turns Ukraine into a landlocked nation, tripling Russia’s Black Sea coastline to 600 kilometers.

 (the rest of the article is bullshit) = reference https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/ukraine-russia-war/

Option 5.1.1 Russia desintegration - UE project develop/ of gas richest field Shtokmanouskoe , Barents Sea; gas line option 1 - along Russia border with Finland Option 2 - Trough Karelia, Volkhov City.

 https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/325/doc_327_290_en.pdf

"The most tentative option for Kyiv is to declare Siberia non-flammable and the region’s complete independence from Moscow."

 “The collapse of the empire is obvious,” said Arslang Sandzhiyev, who chaired a congress of the Kalmyk people in October that adopted a declaration of independence for the Republic of Kalmykia

Representatives of Chechens, Tatars, Bashkirs, Nogais, Circassians, Karelians, Cossacks, and others signed a declaration proclaiming Russia “a bankrupt state” and calling for “the end of the existence of the Russian Federation.”

The same forum issued declarations of independence for Karelia and the “Siberian Confederation,” a long-proposed independent region that would encompass most of Russia’s oil-and-gas-rich eastern territory.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ethnic-minorities-independence-ukraine-war/32210542.html