Vladimir Putin has announced he will call a ceasefire and immediately enter peace talks if Ukraine is willing to pull back its troops from four regions occupied by Russian forces and give up plans to make a NATO membership bid.
WILL THERE BE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CEASEFIRE?
‘We will (call a ceasefire) immediately,’ Putin said in a speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry this morning, adding his proposal is aimed at a ‘final resolution’ of the conflict and that the Kremlin is ‘ready to start negotiations without delay’.
PUTIN WARNS WORLD WAR III
In the same speech this morning, the Russian president are pushing him towards ‘the point of no return’ over a nuclear World War III.
‘We have come unacceptably close to the point of no return… Calls to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, which possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons demonstrate the extreme recklessness of Western politicians,’ Putin declared.
‘They either do not understand the scale of the threat they are creating – or are simply obsessed with their own sense of impunity and exceptionalism.
‘Both can lead to tragedy,’ he concluded sternly.
The declaration comes on the eve of a two-day conference in Switzerland dedicated to building a ‘road map’ to peace in Ukraine, meanwhile, it is seen as a non-starter in Kyiv.
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STATEMENT FROM UKRAINE
President Volodymyr Zelensky has routinely refused to consider a deal that would see Ukrainian land surrendered to Moscow.
His aide Mykhailo Podolyak said of Putin’s peace proposal: ‘It’s all a complete sham. Therefore – once again – get rid of illusions and stop taking seriously the ‘proposals of Russia’ that are offensive to common sense.
But Putin’s troops currently control a significant amount of Donetsk and Luhansk, and in September 2022 Moscow unilaterally declared it had annexed those two regions well as parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
His aide Mykhailo Podolyak said of Putin’s peace proposal: ‘It’s all a complete sham. Therefore – once again – get rid of illusions and stop taking seriously the ‘proposals of Russia’ that are offensive to common sense
