It's academic at this point.
Maiden happened, it was popular, and Ukraine asserting it's independence from Russia is popular too.
Putin had no business invading and occupying sovereign Ukraine terrority which of course started in 2014.
Putin is on record as not accepting the existence of Ukraine as a sovereign nation in any form. He sees it as a part of Russia and his goal is to make that happen no longer how long it takes and how many millions of poor and provincial Russian lives that it costs.
You can't make a real peace deal with such evil.