Perhaps Offering Terms

It has been reported that Russia may be offering the Ukraine a way out of the slaughter, and that the offer is NOT unconditional surrender. This, if true, could mean the bloodbath is nearing an end, except that Zelenskyy still has maximalist notions that his depleted forces can fully evict Russians from what he considers Ukrainian territory. He can't, anymore than Putin could subdue all resistance within the Ukraine short of killing everyone and everything there with nuclear weapons. You don't make peace with friends (because you don't have to), but sometimes you must compromise with enemies simply to survive.