Hogwash. Putin himself made a veiled threat to use chemical weapons on the plant to clear it, that’s not “treating them with respect”.
You’re getting this from the Biden Ukraine, which is perfectly happy to offer up its people to support Joe Biden. The best meme I heard was something that had Biden saying “We are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian.”
Putin has publicly stated that he will safeguard them, that he has called off the attack because there was no point in attacking this plant (since the 2000 men in it are mostly Ukrainian conscripts who probably don’t even want to be there). Unless the US does something to inflame the situation, which is certainly possible, I think he’ll have to stick to his word.
Putin is no saint and obviously is out only for Russia, but that’s reasonable and I just wish we had a president who was only out for the USA.
Why is nobody - except Trump - interested in a negotiated settlement that won’t kill Ukrainians?