I've heard some of the pundits & historians saying that
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Putin doesn't want the headache and expense of administering Ukraine.
They are happy to absorb the ethnic Russian eastern oblasks that want to be a part of Russia, but not the Nazis in the far west, nor those who would consider them occupiers.
They are quite content to let the West pay for rebuilding Ukraine... they're the ones that were itching for this war.