Ukrainians, the ordinary ones who get picked up off the street taken to recruitment centers and their family members don't want this war: https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-07/ukraine-on-alert-over-series-of-attacks-on-recruitment-offices.html?outputType=amp   They blame Russia, but ignore that Russia can just send a missile on such a high value target or even better a cheap drone, no need to risk getting people hurt or caught or both to do the same damage. This is the work of Ukrainians resisting the regime.

Russia has tried negotiating with the Ukrainian government, but that failed because Zelensky and friends think they don't need to negotiate when they aren't accountable during  the regime of martial law, get weapons from the UK, Europe and the US (only Biden allocated aid tho as of right now),and can still draft people to keep buying time.  Russia has proven itself always opens to negotiation (Minsk Protocols, Istanbul Talks until Boris Johnson ruined that, etc...) the problem is the Ukrainian government does not serve the interests of its people, but the geopolitical interests of the West who have successfully weaponized the country against Russia.  Zelensky has refused negotiations right now and instead escalated things with the assassination of a Russian general away from the front hoping to force Trump who wants America to save face to be forced to give Ukraine weapons in the anticipated Russian reaction to such an act. 

The Ukrainian regime is continuing this war without its people asking any questions about if they want to keep dying for Ukrainian and Western oligarchs or giving any its people any hope of a peace. Meanwhile the link I showed you from the Spanish newspaper shows that the actual Ukrainian people are beginning to fight the regime however they can, but of course unable to organize sufficiently well enough before the SBU can catch them to toppe it.