My assessment hasn’t changed. Trump wants a ceasefire but he also will have a limit to his patience. This is a case where he has given Putin an inch and Putin wants the mile. Putin has been toying with Trump and trumps gonna lose patience. Z may not be helping, but it’s not about Z now. A collapse of Ukraine is not in anyone’s interests except Russia.
Russia’s latest nonsense about putting Ukraine under UN administration as well as including the BRICS craphole countries in the ceasefire negotiations was another sad attempt by Putin to stall for time.