You missed a very important point Max. It would have been settled in less than a month. The bellow has been the attitude of the main party (oops) in the conflict since the beginning. It takes 2 to tango Max, you know that.
"The Biden administration dismissed on Friday a call by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, showing no sign that flagging political support for American military aid to Kyiv had made President Biden more inclined to make concessions to Moscow."