This is such typical Bolshevism. Steal what they can. When they start losing ask for “negotiations” to solidify their position militarily and politically. Russia has proven over the past 8 years that they no intention of ever willingly retreating from an inch of what it has stolen in Ukraine. They lied in 2014 and they are lying now. They just need to go home.
I could not agree more. The Russians may have shed their Soviet Union identity, but their inborn trait of expansionism continues. That part never changes.