Don't know if the bilateral talks are going somewhere, i'm just perplexed that on Russian and West news they say they are practically ready to sign something... I cannot see the Russian signing something if they didn't capture all the east and south and are ready to keep it.Yeah it is. At this point if the Russians want much more they need to either throw more troops into Ukraine, or they need to rapidly capture Mariupol, which could free up to 10,000 troops for operations on the eastern front designed to trap the Ukrainians in the Donbas.