@amwassil - Ukraine tried to negotiate w/Russia in person, by phone, over Zoom, and via proxies about 20 times. Ukraine does not want Russia to have any of it's country, and why should Zelenski let him have it? "Historically" doesn't matter; in recent history, it's Ukraine.
Remember that Zelenski was elected fairly recently. Before Zelenski was elected, Putin had made a lot of key members of the Ukrainian gov't stinking rich Putin pawns and Ukrainians hated them. After the election, Putin and his pawns laughed at Zelenski (who actually used to be a pretty talented comedian), but Zelenski straight-up asked the people what they wanted, they told him, and he started cleaning house. Suddenly, not so funny.
After all the money Putin paid for the privilege of owning so many decision makers in the Ukraine gov't, imagine how pissed he was when this silly little TV personality won the hearts and minds of the Putin hatin Ukrainians, and exposed all his guys in office (in Ukraine).
Anyway, my point is, Zelenski wants what majority Ukrainians want, so he's not gonna give any part of Ukraine to Putin, he's totally fine with a multi-cultural Ukraine, and he wants to join NATO.
Putin doesn't like it, but it's really none of business. His attack was 100% in violation of international law.