There is nothing to negotiate.
——-
Can you say “Minsk Agreements 2015”? The one Ukraine violated.
Read up on it, the upcoming negotiations WILL start with that violated agreement. Minsk of course is now history, as the Ethnic Russian provinces are now a part of the Russian Federation. Fact: Vlad is not giving them back, and the West can do nothing about it.
Actually, the West can and is doing something about it.
The Russian economy is severely withering. Absent Western present, there is no real Russia. They can’t make anything. They had to go to Kim Jong Un for artillery shells and some troops. Their gas sales are diminished severly. Their crude/oil sales are diminished severely.
Their military is incapable of maintaining the war on the ground. The Russian war effort is surviving by committing war crimes killing people and private property using Iranian drones.
Their command and control is severely diminished because commanders forgot the Number 1 Rule for commaned..... stay alive.