I'm afraid Putin is playing Trump again -- unless Modi's promise to stop buying Russian oil together with the threat of Tomahawk cruise missiles has suddenly concentrated his mind, which seriously I doubt. Putin can't stay in power if he ends the war with anything that can't be sold to the Russian people, Russian military and nomenclatura as a victory. That's the way of Russian history. Lose a war, or lose lots of men in a drawn war, lose power.