Ukraine is not fighting because "The West" won't let them stop; they're fighting because they know what will happen to them if they do stop. Russian soldiers ar

Ukraine is not fighting because "The West" won't let them stop; they're fighting because they know what will happen to them if they do stop. Russian soldiers are brutal occupiers. Russian officials have been deporting lots of children from the territory they've occupied. That is, I can't see Ukraine trying to negotiate some kind of peace-for-land deal. Apart from anything else, any land Russia occupied as part of such a deal would be used to launch a new attack once they've reconstituted their forces. So any negotiation would be between "The West" and Russia, over Ukraine's heads. And that is the only kind of negotiation that Putin will countenance; he's been very clear that he thinks Ukraine is not a country, it's people are no more than ill-educated Russians, and its leaders are nazis. Of course, Russia has negotiated with real nazis before; but it's pretty seditious to mention that in public in Russia nowadays.