Isn’t this basically a surrender? No two nations at “war” would even discus such a thing. Russia would have surely said no, or destroyed them all before letting them go back to Ukraine.
And Russia, by doing so, give themselves yet another PR win.
-——Isn’t this basically a surrender?-—
For there to be a surrender there must have been resistance.
Russia reabsorbed essentially Russian Crimea.
Everybody knows it including the Ukranians