Zelensky: De-escalation Requires Both Ukraine and Russia to Halt Strikes on Energy Infrastructure

Zelensky's conditional offer is notable less as a ceasefire proposal than as a test of reciprocity: it ties restraint on one category of targets to restraint on another, and explicitly demands guarantees rather than a verbal understanding. The practical audience is twofold — Moscow, which would have to accept limits on a campaign it has used to pressure Ukraine's grid, and European capitals, whose ammunition stocks underpin Kyiv's air defense. Whether either side treats energy infrastructure as separable from the wider war is the open question; so is whether Europe's resupply effort keeps pace with the demand Zelensky is signaling.