Russia's already violated two sovereignty treaties and their own leaked internal memos (confirmed by their top propagandists on state TV) said they would take any ceasefire as an opportunity to rearm and reinvade anyways. Unless there is some kind of full NATO membership involved here for the loss of Crimea as well as armed NATO patrols of civilian shipments in the Black Sea, there is no ceasefire for Ukraine that would possibly justify the loss of security/economic damage of another guaranteed invasion.
If anything Russia should lose Crimea and the Sevestopol naval base as a consequence of their aggression on top of Ukraine joining NATO. Russia should not have the ability to hold the world's food supply hostage nor should they be rewarded at all for any gains made through military aggression.
Sadly Putin would rather send another 100K conscripts to their deaths than accept terms like that. The issue will have to be forced on him then with so many military defeats and domestic issues from dead mobiks he can't ignore the situation at home.
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