On February 28, 2022, four days after Russia had attacked into Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev began peace talks.
The Russian attack had aimed to force Kiev to promise neutrality – i.e. not to join NATO. It also aimed to put an end to eight years of neo-NAZI and other militant bombing of the two Russian-speaking provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, promised autonomy under the Minsk Accords of 2014-5 following the US and militant inspired Maidan uprising in 2014.
Marking 10 years of the Russo-Ukraine War By Gregory Clark