This makes sense.
We all know (those of us who are not trolls or suffering cranial/sphincter inversion) that the ukes are losing badly. Dollars don’t replace trained/experienced pilots and operators.
A negotiated ‘peace’ carries with it a number of benefits, including a major windfall for the corruptocrats, nato or not.
Actually only people drowning in Russian Kool-Aid "know" that "the ukes are losing badly".
I guess in Russian logic spending more than a year mostly losing territory you captured in the beginning is "winning".
How many Russian soldiers have died in all the Russian "winning"?