The “article” uses “a” lot of “quotes” and that’s annoying.
Jacqui Heinrich from Fox News is the reporter who first reported the news.
That would seem to be highly likely.
Russia can win everything they want on the battlefield and have no reason to observe a ceasefire. The only deal to be made is a surrender from the Ukraine government in Kiev.
President Trump is on the losing end of this deal. The best he can get is some face-saving measures in exchange for dropping sanctions on Russia. That might be good enough.
The USA cannot continue with the Ukraine war. We must focus attention in other areas.
The lesson from Ukraine is that competent military force matters more than anything else. That and the unrelenting political will to use that force. We have neither characteristic at present.
It is the same lesson that we are seeing with the Turks in Armenia and Syria. It is the same lesson that we are seeing with Israel in Syria and Lebanon. It is the same lesson that we are about to see with mainland China and Taiwan.
We have been very slow learners. It has been easy for us to use military force against 3rd-world opponents, and we have done a lot of that. It is not so easy to use force against peer opponents and we have allowed our forces to deteriorate in skills and stamina to where we are simply outclassed in some areas.
It will require time and money that we do not currently have in order to fix this. We had best stay out of any major peer conflicts until we have that time and money.
We must fix our domestic problems first.