There's a lot of doomer morons in Russia itself. That are susceptible to US bullshit. Now the US has already made it look like China is on side or at least discussing 1991 borders
Zelensky can discuss anything he likes with anyone... the Minsk agreements prove there is no value in anything that man signs and the same can be said for the French and the Germans and it goes without saying the Americans.
China isn't going to tell Russia what to do over the Ukraine just like Russia wont tell China what to do about anything... Tibet, Urgyars, Taiwan, Hong Kong... it is not Russias place to say and so they wont.
Can't say the same for the west though... which makes them annoying bedfellows.
I can't see rationality in propagating where you're going to attack. Surprise is a strategic element of any conflict and can sometimes be the key to success, but it seems that the Ukrainians don't think so... let's see how it goes.
The Ukrainians need to justify all the support and money and weapons and ammo they are getting from the west... if there was no promise of potential future success then why bother provide more money and weapons and ammo?
It appears that in return he got US agreement, which they were withholding, to sell upgrade kits for Turkey's F-16 to /70 standard.
"Less than two weeks after Hungary voted to accept Finland into NATO, the Finnish and Swedish governments joined the European Commission’s legal case against Hungary’s Child Protection Law. The law, which forbids depictions of homosexuality or gender reassignment in media content aimed at under-18s, has been criticized by other EU members as anti-LGBT."
https://www.rt.com/news/574496-hungary-finland-sweden-nato/
Yeah, once they get what they want they turn on you real quick...
Unlike Gorbachev and Nato, Beijing did get Taiwan agreed on by the US on paper ; signed and delivered by the UN. And it didn't mean a f*cking thing. So it is very rich that China is going to step into the Ukraine thing and settle it with the US's agreement. Hilarious really.
But they can't. No one in Kiev with any power can be trusted to sign any agreement let alone stick to it.
France and Germany have proven that their guarantee is meaningless after the Minsk agreements and admissions it was all a front to build up Ukraines forces so that it could get what it wanted by force rather than the negotiations stipulated in the minsk agreements.
Who else is there... finland, the US, the UK, Switzerland... they are all party to the sanctions against Russia.
This will be decided on the battlefield... which is going to take longer but will be the only way to achieve Russias stated goals of making Ukraine safe for its people and for Russia.
There's no such thing as negotiation with the US on anything.
Putin knows that perfectly well...
If China believes in some kind of peace deal nonsense, then it proves China learned nothing in last 30 years but I wager they know hence why they are effective at what they do.
China will learn that helping the west and working with the west is for nothing... Russia helped the west by allowing equipment and weapons and ammo and things transported through their territory to supply western forces in Afghanistan in the hope that they might help that country... but the US just screwed them over and over and they ended up cancelling that help.
It is completely forgotten in the west now... just like Soviet efforts to help defeat nazi Germany in WWII and Imperial Japan in the same conflict.
These days if you asked someone in the west, the Soviets didn't help the west defeat Germany... it was the west that helped the Soviets survive with lend lease and strategic bombing and dday and nukes won WWII... silly...