"At the peace negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022 with Rustem Umerov, the Ukrainians did not agree on peace because they were not allowed to. For everything they discussed, they first had to ask the Americans.”
From the Berliner Zeitung -- a communist East German, meaning Russian, propaganda organ.
Nothing from the Berliner Zeitung should be accepted at face value.
Every report we have from Ukraine itself says that Ukrainians are highly motivated to fight and defend their country from Vlad the Invader's armies of mass murdering, raping and kidnapping troops.