Considering that Ukraine is already offering neutrality, it would not take much to come to a 'favorable compromise'.
If you start out making outrageous demands, that may sabotage the negotiations from the beginning.
Putin can come out of this having dealt the Regime a bloody nose and get what he wants, but he has to not push past the culminating point as Clausewitz said.
That could just be a negotiation tactic - ask for the impossible and then reach a favorable compromise.
Considering that Ukraine is already offering neutrality, it would not take much to come to a 'favorable compromise'.
If you start out making outrageous demands, that may sabotage the negotiations from the beginning.
Putin can come out of this having dealt the Regime a bloody nose and get what he wants, but he has to not push past the culminating point as Clausewitz said.