Some extremely upsetting imagery is coming out of the recently liberated suburbs of Kyiv. A lot of civilians - mostly men but some women and children as well - killed in apparent executions. Some of the dead are just scattered across roadways and sidewalks while others appear to have been partially buried in mass graves. Given the scale, it's difficult to imagine that this is just random wanton violence. There are unconfirmed reports that Russian troops were under order to kill all 'fighting age' men regardless of whether they took up arms or not. Whatever the reason, I think this makes any sort of negotiated settlement less likely in the short-term as Ukrainians will (understandably) harden their resolve.
It also makes any country that's trying to claim "neutrality" in this conflict all the more utterly pathetic. Wars can often be morally grey things but it's clear in this conflict who the bad guys are - most of the civilized world has recognised this. The gruesome pictures we've seen from Bucha today where Ukrainian civilian men were tied and summarily executed before the Russian forces departed were sickening. The Russian apologists and "West haters" will have to go back a long time to try and find any equivalence to anything that the West has done that is comparable in cruelty and barbarism - at least not with serious consequences to the perpetrators responsible.
Mind you it's only really one so called upcoming country that this really applies to (I think most people know who that is). Most of the rest are either smaller countries who are beholden to either Russia or China which is slightly more understandable even if wrong as it's clear they'll go down on the wrong side of history on this.
