To split Ukraine was a plan of all the three - Brussels, Moscow and Washington (some ppl say there's an agreement and all this madness is just perfectly staged). The question was who's going to pay for that. The main ukraine's sponsor Russia seems to quit. EU doesn't have money. The US just doesn't want to pay. We only have to wait what's gonna happen.
The best solution for the US and EU is Russian invasion.... but Putin doesn't seem to follow that.

The keyword here is - gas

If Ukraine splits and nobody invests the western part (east part well keep being funded bu Russia like all last 20 years) it's gonna be the worst times in whole Ukrainian history.

and upgrade the industry.
here it means to DEMOLISH the industry

Several completely normal people told me that Ceaucescu and socialism was better than how they have it today (as EU citizens). To me, all this was totally unexpected. I thought things were getting better there, and they loved the EU. But the reality was the opposite.
I was touched, and felt really badly for them. Partly guilty, because I used to be tremendously in favour of EU expansion eastwards, when I was at university in the 1990s. I was even in an organisation that worked for it. But look how it worked out.
Only those countries got better that had been granted permission to have it's own industry. Ask anybody in e.g. Slovakia is it better in EU or was it better back in 80s? They would tell you the same (but not on camera)