THAT ISTAMBUL PEACE CONFERRENCE .....been meaning to dig it up for you for a while one of the big sticking points and one of the reasons the deal could not be done .....
"“As of April 15, the two sides remained quite far apart on the matter. The Ukrainians wanted a peacetime army of 250,000 people; the Russians insisted on a maximum of 85,000, considerably smaller than the standing army Ukraine had before the invasion in 2022. The Ukrainians wanted 800 tanks; the Russians would allow only 342. The difference between the range of missiles was even starker: 280 kilometres, or about 174 miles, (the Ukrainian position), and a mere 40 kilometres, or about 25 miles, (the Russian position),” the authors wrote, citing the final draft of the proposed treaty." https://www.intellinews.com/fresh-evidence-suggests-that-the-april-2022-istanbul-peace-deal-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine-was-stillborn-321468/
russia also wanted to station troops in Ukraine ...there were other points of disagreement ...though on other points concessions were made , there never at any stage was going to be concensus....putin wanted control of Ukraine ...Ukraime could never allow that
