As I understand, Ukraine is suggesting to the US that a “partial ceasefire” which only covers long-range bombardment of civilian infrastructure/ civilians (which should be off-limits anyway) can be agreed upon. If that’s the case, this is probably a move to show that they mean business and that if russia doesn’t agree to it, they will ramp up attacks on major cities in russia.

If so, it’s a win-win for Ukraine. They haven’t been wasting resources on bombing civilians anyway, while they’ve needed to spend resources to defend against russian attacks on civilians. Hopefully, this can be played such that they show “willingness to negotiate”, making the US re-commence weapons shipments, while also (possibly) getting russia to temporarily scale down attacks on civilians.

I say “temporarily” because I’m not under the illusion that russia would actually stop bombing civilians for the duration of the war.