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I found this useful: https://acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscellanea-understanding-the-war-in-ukraine/
Not because it's particularly insightful, but it shores up with citations some things I'd observed in the last few years and hadn't thought to keep references for.
Also what springs to mind is a conversation reported when David Cameron was Prime Minister where Putin had been shocked that the UK might allow part of the country to choose to be a separate country (it was when the Scottish referendum thing was happening) - Putin's view in response to DC saying yes they would respect the outcome was incredulity and to say that Russia would not allow part of the country to try that and they would have an armed response.
That's somewhat relevant as along with the revisionist history that Ukraine was always part of Russia, never wanted to be a separate country, and was an intrinsic borderland... this is Putin's view... that a part of the country cannot ever not be part of the country.