Ukraine should have done that 2 years ago and saved alot of Ukrainian lives.
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Actually, the Minsk Accords ( 2014) that the Ukies backed out of in 2015 called for the Russian Territories to be given special sovereign status ( ie, an autonomous zone within Ukraine proper)…….but when the Ukrainian Azov Nazi’s began shelling them they voted for full Independence . No changing the facts.
…..so here we are. Vlad now needs to take everything East of the Dniepner, it will give him the buffer zone needed to keep the ever expanding NATO off his doorstep.
Or Putin could just have taken those areas instead of getting stupid and gready.
Let Russia keep Crimea, and let them take Luhansk and Donetsk. Ukraine gets back Kherson and Zaporizhia. Everyone stop fighting and retreat to separate corners. All POWs and other peoples returned.
End sanctions, and Russia can sell gas and oil to Europe again. A percentage of those sales goes to rebuild destroyed buildings and infrastructure in both parts—Donbass and Ukraine.
No dictates on government makeup or alliances.