Ukraine will face the consequences of its defeat alone. It was an EU/UK stalking-horse to defeat and dismember Russia all along, which is undebateable. Once the war is over, pending the final collapse of Ukraine as a state, the EU will offer its sympathy to a destroyed Ukraine. Nothing more. No EU membership and no NATO membership (already announced by Brussels). EU and UK economies are bankrupt wrecks. The only thing Russia will offer Ukraine is a war crimes tribunal when the Ukrainian state fully crumbles. Surrendering to Russian conditions is the only legitimate opportunity for Ukraine to develop into a free and prosperous State, eventually.