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The idea that if Ukraine had just given Putin what he wanted at some point in the past then Putin would have been satisfied and asked no more is not true.
Putin wants Ukraine to be under Russian control, all of it. Any smaller steps are just that, smaller steps towards the main goal.
When he got Crimea, was he satisfied? No he then went for Luhansk and Donetsk. And if Ukraine had rolled over and let him have those two, would he have stopped there? No, they were planning to next try to take Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson under the Novorossiya concept.
And if that had succeeded with nothing stopping them was Russia going to be satisified then, or would they continue to apply pressure and take efforts to bring the rest of Ukraine under Russian control?
It is only when faced with force that Russia has been forced to stop, even just temporarily. And it is only if Putin is forced to accept he cannot succeed that he will give up on his long term goal.
That is why Ukraine's conditions for peace are centered around security guarantees (in whatever configuration) that will prevent Russia from continuing efforts to control Ukraine. Without that any agreement is meaningless and will be discarded by Russia once Russia is ready to make their next attempt.