A few weeks of slaughter should induce the Ukraine military to take control and remove Zelensky and that entire government.
From day one the only solution was a Ukrainian military coup. They would be Russian friendly, completely and purely technocratic, and all problems would be eliminated.
Elections can be promised maybe in 10 years or so. For now, with a technocratic perspective, the lights go on, the trains run on time, there is no foreign policy, and repairs can be funded by the gas Transit fee. It’s actually not a complicated thing.
Getting rid of Putin would be a better solution for long term peace in the region.
During the Cold War this was called Findlization. The Finns were left alone by Russia as long as they maintained a neutral position in International Affairs. They were a buffer zone between the West and Russia.
I am not sure Russia will accept that solution here. I suspect neither will the Ukrainians. The last partisan resistance to Russia in the Ukraine after WW2 was not finally crushed until the 1956.
I suspect that what will happen here is a truce while Ukrainian do to Putin what he did in the border zones prior to the war. Low scale guerilla warfare. Russia’s very own Iraq post Saddam.