I’d suspect that if the Ukrainians can maintain their independence and repelling this invasion, that in addition to using the reparations that Russia will pay to rebuild what they destroyed… they will be redoing their rail infrastructure away from the wider “Russian gauge” to the “standard gauge” that Western Europe uses. This would aid integration into the west, and have the added plus of make it more difficult for invading armies from the east to use their own infrastructure against them.


"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one."
 Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense" 1776)