“Zelensky is the one that has been stalling by refusing to sign a rare earths deal”
Yes, but he’ll take a ceasefire because he’s losing land much faster now and his troops are a wreck, they’ve had no rest, no rotation and there aren’t enough of them.
Putin is stalling on the ceasefire because he knows that’s an advantage to Ukraine and a minus for him.
Russia is in a position of strength and isn't going accept anything less than concession of the annexed territory to the Russian Federation and NATO being expelled from Ukraine.