Zelensky officially announced that the occupied regions would be made into a buffer zone, but I think his real intention is to build an anti-RuZzian independent country. Zelensky and his team have proved to the West that RuZzia was easier to invade than expected, and now, I think (or rather hope) they will build a new anti-RuZzian nation there (instead of merely annexing the region or exchanging it for the regions occupied by RuZzia) so that the birth of a new nation will become an incentive for some republics in the Russian Federation to rebel against Moscow and separate themselves from the federation. We already know very well that Zelensky is no ordinary leader. On a related note, the timid and lukewarm way the West has been dealing with this war is disgusting and infuriating. How much sacrifice Ukraine has had to pay because the West did not take a stern/resolute attitude in the first place. It’s quite the same with what the West did to Poland right before WW2. I imagine that Zelensky, fed up with the senile Biden and other pathetic leaders of the West, decided to embark on this operation with a strong intention to show them what a true leader should do. And, none of those humiliated leaders have complained to Zelensky about the weapons supplied by them being used on Russian soil. How spineless and pathetic!