Would ukraine be content for the end of war if it meant giving up that region? What we've heard from volodomir zolens is that he's open to territorial compromises. He himself has said that those kind of compromises would take a referendum, but it's not clear whether the ukranian people would accept that. It seems to me that those territorial questions are going to be incredibly difficult sticking points.
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