Western European politicians are aware that their votes have little interest in Ukraine and care far more about having to pay more for their electricity. The fact that most of Ukraine is now without electricity due to Russian war crimes is irrelevant to self-centered flabby Europeans. Thus Scholz is eager to return to the status-quo in order to appease German voters and (if we are generous) to buy some time for Germany's military capabilities to become fractionally less useless. Putin understands, to a limited degree, Western spinelessness, and will obviously continue to exploit our feebleness and cowardice to the fullest extent possible - as well as continuing to conduct misinformation campaigns to confuse ignorant foolish western citizens.