Oh no, not the peace negotiations! Think about hundreds of thousands of lives that this will save, it’s terrible! War is peace, or something. /s
On a more serious note - just this morning there was news about the biggest victory of Zelensky’s regime yet - they stopped 40+ people trying to escape Ukraine. Each one of them paid 6-8k dollars for that (it’s a lot of money in Ukraine, for many people it might have been their life savings). “Hopeless situation” for Ukraine is the best news there could be for Ukrainians.