Not sure you can blame them can you? If they concede territory that's just a message of "invade later for more". It's also pretty hard to give concessions when

Not sure you can blame them can you? If they concede territory that's just a message of "invade later for more". It's also pretty hard to give concessions when the rhetoric of your opponent doesn't make any sense. Effectively Russia doesn't want Ukraine to be Ukraine one way or another.