Like always Russians want peace but bloody West Countries are against.
...there was a deal on the table that would have ended the war but that the Ukrainians walked away from it because of a combination of pressure from their Western patrons and Kyiv’s own hubristic assumptions about Russian military weakness...
They are saying that US was against having Ukraine in NATO when as early as 2008 United States, Canada, Poland, Romania, the Czechs and the Baltic States, strongly supported Ukraine and Georgia becoming NATO action plan members; however, they were strongly opposed by Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium.
www.rferl.org
Instead of that Germans started their Nord Stream project weakening position of Ukraine
https://carnegieeurope.eu/2022/01/26/why-germany-is-undermining-nato-unity-on-russia-pub-86279
There is a long story about collaboration Ukraine in NATO and they have received security assurances in 1994 from the United States, Russia and Britain in a exchange for removing nuclear weapons from Ukraine area what was declared again by Russia and the United States in 2009 confirming that the security assurances made in the 1994 would still be valid after 2009. Like you can see it didn't last long as in 2014 Russia took over Crimea.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine had the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. When Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on removing these weapons from Ukraine appeared to break down in September 1993, the U.S. government engaged in a trilateral process with Ukraine...
www.brookings.edu