I don’t know if you can trust these polls from Ukraine but if any referendum was held on the status of these territories in Ukraine, this would be the result. And then Zelensky would say that he cannot constitutionally cede territory.
And what I find absolutely dumb is that the people of Halychyna (Western Ukraine) would decide the fate of the people of Donbas and Crimea. Why should they have any say in this?
Peace talks are a joke at this point. Trump thinks that he can sell Putin a good deal. But the latter knows that an unfinished war would flare up again. The Ukrainians and their Western supporters think that Ukraine still has a chance to win and deal a strategic defeat to Russia. This is the aim of this war, to either defeat Russia, or defeat Ukraine. And it will only be resolved through the capitulation of one of the sides.
Insomniac Resurrected 