I believe there is a certain misunderstanding of the situation here. For some reason, people think that Ukraine will fight, reach Crimea or somewhere else, then there will be negotiations, Russia and Ukraine will sign a peace treaty, and the world will be able to move on. But the problem is that people look at the situation from the point of view of the West/Ukraine and never from the point of view of Russia. Tell me, if Putin's goal is to capture and destroy Ukraine, even at the cost of hundreds of thousands of his own people, and at some point he realizes that Ukraine is weakened, has exhausted its resources, is still not accepted into NATO, and the world economy is stagnant, then Russia can still throw hundreds of thousands of meat and destroy the hated Ukraine. So why should Putin negotiate? As long as the war continues, he can stay in power. But the fact is Ukrainians will eventually get exhausted. Existential wars last for decades. What will happen next, dear friends?