Political Solution is viable , as long as Russia understands it wasted over 20 billion dollars and a good sum of young men and a much necessary hardware and brain power to conquer a land the size of iceland , BUT not ukraine.

 And as long as an indefinite armistice is signed and honored GAME OVER!

And slava ukraina.

They do not have a lot of choices them radicals , it is a humiliated great power or a willing buffer state adhering to peking with the slight hope it will regain momentum in diplomacy and military affairs sometime this century , which in fact is a parody since they do not have one sober minded Russian Patriot standing in his or her own right.