Giving up even part of Zaporozhye and Kherson is a “ big deal” since the Russian duma voted to make them part of the RF after they voted by referendum to join Russia.
I would guess the Nuc Power Plant stays under Russian control or maybe an international team. Since the Ukes tried and failed by attacks to make it a dirty bomb many times in the past until the IAEA moved in a monitoring team. And eastern Ukraine will need power to rebuild.
If Z wants to dither, the territory in Donetsk and Luhansk not yet captured…could be by fall. At the cost of another 5,000 or so mostly Uke lives per week.
I presume Trumps team got no-bullsh*t casualty counts per side from the Russians. And will confront Zelensky with his role in sending over a million men to die to achieve absolutely nothing except what Russia chose to pull back from early in the war ( Kharkov and Kherson city)
Not really since part of those oblasts are west of the Dnieper river and would have been hard to defend.
Russia's only objective in those oblasts was to build a land bridge from Crimea to mainland Russia in order to protect its naval base there.