alt Hacker NewsVia a negotiated settlement, which would very likely include Ukraine giving up some amount of territory to Russia and making some guarantees about neutrality, and the West lifting sanctions, hopefully in exchange for Russia paying for Ukraine's reconstruction.
Agree that it will be very hard to do though. Best time to try was years ago, but unfortunately Boris Johnson vetoed that, and now the Russians don't want to negotiate.
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There is no such thing as neutrality. If Ukraine cannot align with west it will mean they will be forced to be under Russia.
Someone hasn't listened to or read anything from Putin in the last 10 years and it shows. What an astoundingly ignorant comment.
Diplomacy was a deliberately lost art and the kickbacks were sweet.
My eyebrows go up when anyone tries rehabilitating Boris' reputation re: Ukraine. He'll spend a long time in solitary confinement in the next life if there is any cosmic justice.
Нet, товарищ. We do not reward wars of conquest by granting territorial gains to aggressors in Anno Domini 2026.
That's such a naive comment. Any negotiated "settlement" that Russia would accept would leave Ukraine effectively defenseless and no longer a sovereign state. It would be only a temporary truce, which Russia would use to rebuild their military and then renew the invasion in a few years on some other artificial pretext.
The only possible way to bring the conflict to a lasting peace is to kill enough Russians (including civilians) that they simply no longer have the capability to conduct war. That is the reality.