Any land grab by russia would be a colossal defeat for the world democracy and the beginning of World War 3.   The ongoing "negotiations" are based on the idea of how much Ukrainian territory to give to russia. The idea of such appeasement is completely flawed.   1. Ukraine is a sovereign country. What if somebody were to grab a plot of land on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and open "negotiations" on how much should be kept. What do you think would be Trump's response? Ukraine is a sovereign country and the land belongs to Ukraine.   2. Leaving any territories under russian control means handing millions of Ukrainians over to russian despotism, the repeat of gulag and Holodomor. Russia has clearly stated why they started this war - to eliminate Ukraine. The russian official press agency “RIA Novosti” has explicitly published a program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such.   3. Russia always lies and cannot be trusted. Starting with Budapest memorandum, where russia agreed to protect Ukrainian sovereignty, and ending with hundreds of direct lies from Kremlin, such as “we are not going to attack Ukraine.” They lie all the time. So, any guarantees by russia are not worth a dime.   4. Any appeasement of the aggressor justifies future aggression. Have we learned nothing from history? In 1938, British PM Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler, and famously called it "peace for our time." This appeasement of the aggressor led to Czechoslovakia being divided by Germany, expansion of Hitler's aggression, and the beginning of WW2.   Any appeasement of russia today will give permission to all dictators around the world to attack other countries, knowing that eventually, like russia, they will receive something as a reward for their aggression. And this would be the beginning of World War 3.