Putin already had everything he is offered now, and gave it up on Feb. 24, 2022

Translating from the Dialog, May 28:

"Sheitelman reported what "big pie" Putin gave up for the sake of invading Ukraine: "You can't go back" 

Mikhail Sheitelman believes that the head of the Kremlin put everything on the line when he began the operation to seize Ukraine 

Mikhail Sheitelman explained how Trump's terms of truce look in Putin's eyes: "The main thing is different. What is Trump offering him? Trump is offering him to stop the war, that is, Trump is offering him to stop achieving the goals that Putin has set for himself. He says: "Change your mind. Don't want what you wanted, but want something completely different." If Putin wanted something different, he would not have started the war."...

The political strategist described how Putin's affairs were going before the full-scale invasion: "Putin had everything in his hands, even Crimea, mind you, he had it. In what sense? Yes, everyone condemned the occupation of Crimea, yes, sanctions were imposed, but not annihilating sanctions. The World Cup was held in the country that occupies Crimea. Nord Stream 2 was launched with the country that occupied Crimea and that waged war in Donbass, that is, this model that Trump is proposing (let's be friends, trade, extract, earn hundreds of billions of dollars together - this is what Trump is proposing), Putin does not need. He had all this, and voluntarily gave it all up on February 24, 2022."  

After this, Mikhail Sheitelman gave an argument in favor of why Putin would not agree to a truce and would not end the war voluntarily: "Nobody in the world believed it, except Biden and American intelligence, because they had information that this war would begin. How? What's the point? Why? You give up everything for what? And he gave up everything. And what will he now say: "I had a "huge pie" until February 2022, and I could eat it as much as I wanted. I gave it up for the sake of a big, bloody dream, and now you are offering me a cake to go back, but you can't go back, the "pie" will no longer exist. You give me a small cake, and in exchange for this you don't do what you dream about? Of course, this is impossible.""