Putin's ceasefire terms 'unacceptable': Ukraine says Russian Prez 'doesn't want to negotiate'

Ukraine on Friday dismissed ceasefire conditions listed by Vladimir Putin and said the remarks of the Russian President shows that he “doesn’t want to negotiate”.

Putin’s ceasefire terms unacceptable to Ukraine

A report by Financial Times quoted Oleksandr Lytvynenko, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, as saying that Putin’s remarks were a “demonstration that he doesn’t want to negotiate”.

He further said that the ceasefire conditions of the Russian leader were unacceptable to Kyiv.

‘Ukraine won’t compromise’

A report by Reuters quoted Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak as saying that there was “no possibility to find compromise” between Putin’s statement and Ukraine’s conditions for ending the war.

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“He is offering for Ukraine to admit defeat. He is offering for Ukraine to legally give up its territories to Russia. He is offering for Ukraine to sign away its geopolitical sovereignty,” Podolyak further said.

Putin trying to seize news agenda from Ukraine

Podolyak went on to slam Putin, saying that he was trying to seize the news agenda from Ukraine by making speech on ceasefire on the eve of Ukraine’s first global peace summit which will begin on Saturday, June 15, in Switzerland.

Lytvynenko also questioned the timing of Putin’s speech and called it Putin’s attempt to undermine the global peace summit of Ukraine.

“Our position is very clear: the peace formula,” Lytvynenko said, referring to 10-point plan of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s to bring the conflict to an end, which includes the full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.

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Putin trying to mislead world powers

Intensifying attack on Putin, Ukraine’s foreign ministry described the Russian President’s words as “manipulative statements aimed at misleading the international community (and) undermining diplomatic efforts to achieve a just peace”.

“It is absurd for Putin, who planned, prepared and executed, together with his accomplices, the largest armed aggression in Europe since the Second World War, to present himself as a peacemaker,” the ministry further said.

Russia not invited for Ukraine’s peace summit

Russia has not been invited to the Swiss event, which Ukraine says will be attended by representatives from more than 100 countries and organisations, including many heads of state.

A report by Financial Times quoted Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, as saying that Kyiv might invite a Moscow representative to a second peace summit sometime in the future.

Putin’s conditions for Ukraine ceasefire

Putin on Friday listed out a series of conditions to immediately cease fire and enter peace talks with Ukraine. However, they were completely at odds with the terms demanded by Ukraine.

Before listing them out, Putin said his “conditions are very simple” and then started saying them one after another.

1 - Full withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the entire territory of four Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in eastern and southern Ukraine – claimed by Moscow. He claimed to have annexed the regions despite only partly occupying them in the fall of 2022.

2 - Russia would gain full control of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.

3 - Kyiv should officially announce the abandonment of its plans to join NATO.

4 - Kyiv has also been asked to never develop nuclear weapons and to pursue its “demilitarisation” and “denazification”, the two goals Russia set out at the start of its invasion

5 - Lifting of western sanctions imposed in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

“As soon as they declare in Kyiv that they are ready for such a decision and begin a real withdrawal of troops from these regions, and also officially announce the abandonment of their plans to join NATO - on our side, immediately, literally at the same minute, an order will follow to cease fire and begin negotiations,” Putin said.

“I repeat, we will do this immediately. Naturally, we will simultaneously guarantee the unhindered and safe withdrawal of Ukrainian units and formations," he further.

“Today we are making another specific, real peace offering. If Kyiv and western capitals refuse it as they did before, then that’s their issue at the end of the day — their political and moral responsibility for the continued bloodshed,” the Russian President said.

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