The Kremlin is seeking more than the annexation of Crimea and control over the Donbas rust belt; its aim is to prevent Ukraine from going West, force it to turn East, and quash any risk within Russia’s wider orbit of further revolutions like the one that brought down Yanukovych.
克里姆林宫的算盘不止于吞并克里米亚和控制顿巴斯铁锈地带；其目的是阻止乌克兰倒向西方，迫使它导向东方，杜绝任何俄罗斯外围内部再次出现类似导致亚努科维奇倒台那样的革命的风险。