I could be wrong, but this looks like a genius EU strategy after the White House shit show.
After world leaders met in London, Macron gave an interview to Le Figaro outlining this exact same plan. A "partial truce", he called it. He said it was discussed with Starmer.
Hours later, Zelenskyy posted a communiqué stating the same.
Today, they're framing it as if it was the US that proposed it. In the end, a ready deal is being offered to russia that sounds like an ultimatum to Putin.