1. As I have predicted all along, Putin doesn't want to attack. Macron again offers Putin an off ramp and based on Russian media reports he has apparently agreed to resume Minks Normandy format meetings. The question will be whether Zelensky will play along. He likely will.
2. A quick survey of the Russian state controlled media. From official Tass the same contrived claim of Russia being under threat. 
3. Izvestia has stopped the bloodthirsty rhetoric and is also focused on talks.
4. This is also the lede on Kommersant.
5. English language Moscow Times remains focused on the seriousness and reports that both Moscow and Kyiv have called for talks.
6. It's all been Russian theater and they have stopped short of triggering sanctions. As I predicted Putin would kill some Ukrainians and we would thank him for being willing to talk. @WHNSC should have never said what we would not do. You simply give Putin a road map for murder.
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