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Semantics, Russia controls the territory they control, and Ukraine lacks the resources to recapture it, period.  I don't like it anymore than you probably do, but it is what it is, and we have to face the facts.  Ukraine is gaining something though, an end to this conflict and the survival of the Ukrainian Government and way of life (for what remains of their people).  They also might get back the people that were abducted and forced into Russia.  Ukraine could also arrange for China and a series of Governments to guarantee the integrity of the new border with Russia.
Therefore, Ukraine must begin the process of negotiation, which will include giving up the occupied territories.

This... isn't a negotiation or a compromise. This is a capitulation. Ukraine gains absolutely nothing, and in exchange gets a """peace treaty""" that's less than worthless.