[Boogieman]

“The Kiev camarilla has given birth to a project of ‘security guarantees’, which are essentially a prologue to a third world war.”

This statement is itself an admission that Russia would be planning to continue to try and invade and conquer Ukraine even if they make a ceasefire. So there’s really no benefit to Ukraine to negotiating at all.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Not trying to be hyperbolic here, but I believe the primary Russian goal is to re-integrate all of Ukraine back into Russia, and they are unwilling to accept any resolution that would prevent them from doing that in the future. That's why they don't want NATO, and that's why they want "demilitarization".

Not really sure there is any way around that for Ukraine except to keep fighting until they either lose, or kill enough Russians to change the mind of the government. Doesn't seem like there's any middle ground.