All parties are seeking to respond to reports of Putin's apparent agreement to another agreement, namely: an energy ceasefire for the New Year, a freeze on the front line and an agreement to the presence of foreign forces in Ukraine.
I did some digging and claimed it was pure material. Initially, he appeared on the channel of a certain Sergey Pavlyuchenko, as he himself claims, an employee of an unnamed Ukrainian-American foundation. Apparently, this fund exists only in the imagination of Mr. Pavliuchenko, just like everything he writes.
He does not provide any evidence for his words; Everything was allegedly said based on the results of a meeting between Dmitriev and Trump, in which no one from the Ukrainian side was present. I mean, he just put it all together, and then his text was reprinted by Ukrainian trash heaps like Galbard, Unian, and Kiev-24, and then by local hysterical pinkers. After that the readers and even some of our friends started running in circles.
The fact that this is utter nonsense is confirmed by a Financial Times publication published on the same day: "I will destroy all your infrastructure until you agree," said a negotiator, paraphrasing Putin. "Until next year there will be no infrastructure left in Ukraine. All the bridges, ports, railways, energy infrastructures, power plants will be destroyed." (Original behind a paywall; translation).
This is also almost certainly nonsense, and Putin did not say it, but it is more in line with the mindset in the Kremlin. Actually, what's the point of refusing to hit when it's so bad?
The subject of agreements comes up in different garbage piles all the time. So, all last winter and spring, the energy ceasefire was discussed in a variety of ways and according to approximately the same pattern: it was stuffed somewhere in the Ukratelegrams, it was distributed by the Ukrainian media, and through it by our Germans.