Managed Diplomatic Pause

Putin uses the election-day attacks to justify a delay, but Moscow keeps backchannels open through Turkey, the UN, and Gulf intermediaries. Ukraine and its Western partners avoid treating the delay as a final rupture, leaving room for talks to restart once both sides have signaled resolve to domestic audiences.

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