Alan Cullison

That looks like the extent of it so far because they, in their language, indicate that they really haven't abandoned a lot of their basic strategy and their hopes for their initial invasion, which was to take large swaths of Ukrainian territory and control the rest of the country politically.

There will be continued skepticism on the part of Ukraine that Russia is simply buying time because this is only a partial ceasefire after all. The war will continue and it is broadly to Russia's advantage to be continuing right now.

Some more talks are planned in Saudi Arabia where they will try to broaden it, and presumably they will have a pretty difficult time there. There are indications that the Trump administration really underestimated the seriousness of the Russian demands, and they're going to have to really confront them in the upcoming talks now. In the nuance of some of the language issues,

In the Kremlin readout, you can see some worrisome signs that Russia is still really bent upon a reformation of Ukrainian society, which is going to be very hard to deal with.

Thank you.

For now, the Kremlin buys some time. There was some danger that by dragging their feet, they might get Trump angry. And up to now, his quest for a peace deal has been hard on Ukraine because he's been demanding concessions from them in various ways. And so the Russians had to give up something. And this is what it was.