Bernard Henri Levy provides the best reply to this Putinist useful idiocy:

Donets river. Just before liberated #Lyman. On the way to Korovi Yar (that day, frontline). Haven’t met one Ukrainian who has not said: the only way to finish this war, it’s to win it; we don’t speak of gastronomy with a cannibal, we don’t speak of peace with a Hitler or a #Putin

Polling data in Ukraine yields small regional variations in support for fighting until all of Ukraine is liberated: 94% in Lviv, 88% in Kharkiv.

We saw with Germany from 1918 to 1939 how half defeating empires means having to do the same job twice. The strikes, desertions and surrenders of the recently drafted and unpaid Russian mobiki paying for their own food, body armor, weapons and diesel show how Russia's military is headed for 1918 type collapse. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=insights+from+ukraine+and+russia

Open conflict between warlords Prigozhin/Kadyrov and defense minister Shoigu tells you what's coming in Russia's next civil war that Prigozhin is already preparing to win (he's Stalin and tik tok warrior Kadyrov is Trotsky). Prigozhin Wagner Group's strategically pointless pounding of Bakhmut tells you the balance of power between the state and private mercenary army is shifting toward the latter.

Putin's only hope for staving off collapse is defeatist appeasing westerners like this, whether whataboutist lefties like Chomsky and Greenwald who converge with fascists tiki-torched Tucker and Trump, or right wingers like JD Vance, Salvini, Orban and Berlusconi.