6 minutes agoRussia: We are ready for talks with the West if the annexed regions are known
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Russia has said that the West's refusal to recognise the new <x0-timers seized by Ukraine makes peace talks more difficult shortly after American President Joe Biden gave signs that he would be ready to meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said it was [...]
The Kremlin said it was open to negotiations, but not on Western demand to leave Ukraine, the BBC writes.
Russa illegally surveyed four Ukrainian regions in late September, without having control over either of them.
Nine months after the invasion, Russia has lost more than half the land it occupied, the Periscope broadcasts.
US President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday that he was ready to meet with Russian leader “if he was looking for a way to end the” war.
Being his side at the White House, France's President Emmanuel Macron made it clear that the two agreed they would never call on Ukraine to compromise for “something that was unacceptable to Kiev”.
The increased diplomatic activity conveyed several months with small signs of readiness for talks. The Russian Army has been forced to withdraw from southern Ukraine while launching large-scale attacks on civilian infrastructure. /Periscopi/
