Isn't Russia open to stopping the military operation at the current borders? Zelenskyy seems to be looking for negotiation (which already won't favor him). Peace is on the table if the puppet regime is willing to make some concessions.

Ukraine is done and they know it. They don't have the people. Young people don't want to fight and are fleeing the country. Expanding the ~~conscription~~ kidnapping program will only increase casualties for an already demoralized, overage and underqualified army. We've seen what all the NATO toys are really worth.

Zelenskyy is done, too, and there's no way around that. His term has expired and is now an unelected dictator imposing martial law, which everyone loves, of course. His best chance of exiting this thing alive would be to surrender and live out his life in a Russian prison, or some faction or another within Ukraine will surely have him publicly executed.

In Ukraine's position, more toys and escalation means an even swifter reprisal. If they're losing now, why give Russia any reason to take it further? I think the Ukraine puppet regime knows how much they have to lose now. Maybe not as much at the top level, but the military is feeling it for sure. Fertile ground for a military coup, if not a revolution. Negotiating peace now is in the best interest of maintaining any kind of stable state.