Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would never declare a ceasefire in Ukraine without Kiev meeting preconditions. Ukraine could use a ceasefire to arm itself for new attacks, which is why a sustainable solution to the conflict must be negotiated first, Putin said. He pointed to earlier agreements on the Ukraine conflict from times before the full-scale Russian invasion, which ultimately ended up "in the rubbish bin." He was referring to the frozen conflict after Moscow illegally annexed Cr
Militaries do that when attacked.
The purpose of a ceasefire isn’t one-sided martial domination, it is the acceptance of mutual intolerable (military) resource overexploitation.
At the moment, the Russian strategy doesn’t line up with the Ukrainian strategy for what a intolerable loss consists of.