If you followed this conflict for the past two years and still take what Zelensky says at face value then you need to get your head checked.

Zelenskyy has said multiple times that there will be no peace process without Russia completely leaving the territory they’ve occupied.

That's some real last days in the bunker talk.

Russia may have been willing to leave early in the war with a combination of (1) assurances that Ukraine would not join NATO and (2) assurances that ethnic Russians in the now-occupied territories would be safe.

Because he is blustering for morale purposes or something? It's not like he hasn't had massive reversals of professed stance before, just look at his campaign platform vs policies once in office, even before the invasion

Der Untergang(2004)