Short of making a fumble of things, nobody in that meeting said anything that wasn't intentional. Hope I'm wrong but if the intention were to keep the status quo Russian won't have needed such a huge force to back it up.
The huge force already caused mass hysteria in west which already achieved certain goals for Putin. You can go back to my messages where I outlined them.
Now to back down from this with some substantial victory for domestic crowds would be preferential. Can't just spend that much money and tension and come home empty handed, well Putin could but coming back with something fungible is beneficial.
He can say that now Donbass is in peace and happy and we've reached our goals and disperse into the night on his donkey.
That's why I'm saying that for everyone this would be a good off ramp.
Ukraine - considers those areas Russian occupied already, so independence means nothing. Minsk officially dead at hands of Russians. Minsk that Ukranians loathe and will never be able to implement.
USA/NATO - Their sanctions said specifically if 'further incursion into Ukraine'. They also consider current occupied territories gone. We can scream saying that Biden and BJ are so great this stopped whole Ukranian invasion.
Russia - Can pull back forces and bring something fungible back home - aka peace in Donbass.