Concessions to Moscow are cashed as escalation, not peace.
Each unilateral easing aimed at ending the war — the declared “energy ceasefire,” the licensed Russian diesel flow — is read in Moscow as license, answered within hours by deeper strikes on civilians and refusals to resume talks.
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Hours after Washington's diesel deal and declared 'energy ceasefire,' Moscow answered the unilateral easing with deeper strikes on energy targets — concession cashed as escalation.
Hours after the diesel concession Moscow answers with a mass-casualty strike and refuses to commit to resuming talks — the concession-cashed-as-escalation pattern verbatim.
Hours after the concession Russia escalates civilian strikes and Putin declines to commit to resuming negotiations.