At the very least we should not pressure Zelensky to abandon negotiations he had going with Putin early in the war.
According to numerous articles, Ukraine and Russia had a deal where Russia would withdraw their forces for agreements that Ukraine would never join NATO.
The US and UK scuttled the deal, in the meantime 10s of thousands of people on both sides died.
That’s what I mean by negotiate, basically don’t kill the negotiations of the two parties involved over some notion of regime change in Russia, our history of regime changes hasn’t worked out to well in the past.
Withdrawing to the borders on Feb 23 is not withdrawing. That’s like saying to the thief you have to return the money you stole, and the thief offers to only return half.