Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken identified two challenges of Ukraine…
“Ukraine faces twin challenges — aggression from outside coming from Russia, and in effect, aggression from within coming from corruption, oligarchs and others who are putting their interests ahead of those of the Ukrainian people,”
The problem is, Ukraine was created as a country for the oligarchs and by the oligarchs. If Ukraine was a country by the people and for the people, it would be a federation and would be friendly to Russia.