Back in March Zelensky literally offered surrender. Immediate declaration of neutrality, no joining the EU or NATO in exchange for a ceasefire. Framework to be then put in place to negotiate the ceding of occupied Donetsk and Luhansk to Russia, along with a recognition of Crimea as Russian all along.
Putin reportedly tore the offer up and told his aids he was going to "thrash" zelensky.
New CIA booklet dropped, boys. Can you provide those "reports" about Putler "thrashing" Zelebobinsky? The Deal that you are talking about was actually the Russian deal that was presented to Ukraine, which even allowed Ukraine to join the EU (this point was added after negotiations, of course, as a sort of concession from the Russian side, i assume. (And also probably because Ukraine have lower chance of joining EU than Turkey, considering state of the country.)).
And on February 24, 2022, it was RUSSIA, Not Ukraine, that made the unilateral decision to escalate the dispute to a full on war. There is literally nothing left to talk about at this point. Ukraine quite rightly feels it cannot trust Russia on anything unless it holds a stick over their heads, and Russia for its part continually demands Ukraines unconditional surrender as a pretext for a negotiated end to the conflict.
There is no demand for unconditional surrender. Ukrainians can retreat from Donetsk and Kherson and it is a done deal, if they put neutrality back into their constitution, of course. Can even keep whatever they hold in Zhoparojie. Very generous from the Russian side, if you ask me. But, i guess, Zalupensky just wants to let his golems die in Bakhmut without end. Such is the fate of the golem, sadly.
And, also, what is Ukrainian "peace deal" position? To go back to 1993 borders? With such demands Zalupoedsky have nothing to compromise on with the Russians, and, considering how long he preached those goals of this war to Ukrainians, he probably will hang if they are not met. Than again, Ukrainians probably would believe anything that CIPSo and Arestovich says, so he is not in any real danger. After all, they still believe that they are somehow different from the Russians.
I, personally, would love if the peace deal that you talked about at the beginning would be the peace deal that Russo-Ukrainian war will end on. Sure, Russia would not win much and that would mean that Russians were dying for very little, but it would also mean that Ukrainians won nothing and died for nothing, despite the ability to end this war in March of 2022 without any major damage to the country. Would be an important lesson for any other US vassals.
Also I don't give the slightest shit about gas stock market price, what I care is that every 3 months or so everyone's rent and energy bills go up.
A lot of people talk about gas prices dropping on the market and that EU gas storage facilities being full. But i always wonder, at what price EU bought the gas that now rests in those storage facilities and how much did they purchased during the time when gas prices were at their pick or at least very high?
Very sad and horrifying footage of brave Ukrainian heroes bombarded by Russian drones. Will Zelensky throw every man, woman and child into the meat grinder just to have a chance at stealing what is, without a doubt, rightful Russian land? Does he have no soul? Was 300k dead Ukrainians not enough? Very sad. I hope this war ends soon.