Eventually, the whole world's going to end up being required to die for old greedy assholes.

strictly from a legal point of view, certain administrative actions, if not made in accordance to law, can be convalidated, meaning that they can be corrected in their wrong bits and made legal (i don't know about the specifics of ukrainian administrative law, but they probably have something like that). from a political standpoint, however, this means that the war is getting problematic for them.