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This is smart. Because when the Ukrainian Nazis most likely violate this Putin can point to that in his talks with Trump and Trump's envoy and say "see, I even tried to give them a ceasefire on a religious holy day which is relevant to both Russia and USAian Christians and they smacked my hand away, I'm not sabotaging peace, it's all them".
On the other hand if the Ukrainians could actually manage to control themselves and observe the ceasefire then there would be pressure on Russia to maintain it longer which would be a bad idea because it would lead to freezing the conflict to give Ukraine time to re-arm and at that point if Russia breaks it then they're the bad guys.
But most likely the Russians know the Ukrainians can't help themselves and want to use this as a big colorful example they can point to in order to attempt to sway Trump and his envoy that the Ukrainians are the problem and thus if they wash their hands of the whole thing it shouldn't be in a way that heaps blame on Russia.