That's about it for me, they haven't broke the will of the people, or changed their view that they do not want to become part of Russia, they had banked on the majority of people wanting to reunite, so absolutely smashing the country to bits would not achieve the objective.
I get the whole argument about Nato/The EU moving ever further East, but in the main the people of these countries do not want to return to the old USSR regime... Ukraine has proven that in many ways.