* Putin says he’d prefer to end war by diplomacy
* Suggests Zelenskiy come to Moscow if he’s ready
* Ukraine says Putin’s proposals are ‘unacceptable’
>However, Putin indicated no willingness to soften his long-standing demands, including that Kyiv abandon any idea of joining NATO and that it end what Moscow says is discrimination against Russian speakers.
>He said he was ready to hold talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy if the Ukrainian president came to Moscow, but that any such meeting had to be well prepared and lead to tangible results.
>Ukraine’s foreign minister dismissed as “unacceptable” the suggestion of Moscow as a venue for such a meeting.
# FAR APART
>Zelenskiy has been pressing to meet Putin to discuss the terms of a possible deal even though the two sides remain far apart. He has urged Washington to impose further sanctions on Russia if Putin does not agree.
>Trump – who has been trying to broker a peace settlement – has also said he wants the two leaders to meet and has threatened, but not yet imposed, secondary sanctions on Russia.
>Putin, whose economy is showing signs of strain after being hit with sweeping Western sanctions, said he would prefer to end the war diplomatically, “by peaceful means”, if possible.
>Russia claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions, a claim Kyiv and most Western countries reject as an illegal land grab backed by a colonial-style war of conquest.
!ping Ukraine&Foreign-policy
GreatnessToTheMoon on
So same thing as usual?
fantasmadecallao on
This war must reach its military conclusion or it will restart.
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Hasnt this crusty mf been tryna do that for years now lmao
motherfucker how do you do this posturing while you’re already in a shooting war you can’t just go back to the pre-2022 playbook now lmao.
Archived version: [https://archive.ph/6rx4K](https://archive.ph/6rx4K).
* Putin says he’d prefer to end war by diplomacy
* Suggests Zelenskiy come to Moscow if he’s ready
* Ukraine says Putin’s proposals are ‘unacceptable’
>However, Putin indicated no willingness to soften his long-standing demands, including that Kyiv abandon any idea of joining NATO and that it end what Moscow says is discrimination against Russian speakers.
>He said he was ready to hold talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy if the Ukrainian president came to Moscow, but that any such meeting had to be well prepared and lead to tangible results.
>Ukraine’s foreign minister dismissed as “unacceptable” the suggestion of Moscow as a venue for such a meeting.
# FAR APART
>Zelenskiy has been pressing to meet Putin to discuss the terms of a possible deal even though the two sides remain far apart. He has urged Washington to impose further sanctions on Russia if Putin does not agree.
>Trump – who has been trying to broker a peace settlement – has also said he wants the two leaders to meet and has threatened, but not yet imposed, secondary sanctions on Russia.
>Putin, whose economy is showing signs of strain after being hit with sweeping Western sanctions, said he would prefer to end the war diplomatically, “by peaceful means”, if possible.
>Russia claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions, a claim Kyiv and most Western countries reject as an illegal land grab backed by a colonial-style war of conquest.
!ping Ukraine&Foreign-policy
So same thing as usual?
This war must reach its military conclusion or it will restart.
Oh piss off, Vlad
And take your army with you too
Oh no! What if he resorts to violence?