Do you really believe that they have senior officers who aren’t puppets?
Of course they are puppets. That’s why Russia would agree to it.
The media will get to film Russia troops withdrawing from the front and won’t film the Ukraine troops doing the same.
This will be enough for the politicians who kept it going to pretend it is all fair. It will be their face saver.
It will be a year or two before it’s clear who won. That’s long enough to empty the front page.