Russian President Vladimir Putin said, ready to compromise on Ukraine war
US: In conversations with US President-elect Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he is amenable to reaching a compromise on the Ukraine crisis. He emphasized that there are no prerequisites for the negotiations, but that any agreement must include genuine Ukrainian authorities.
According to a Reuters story, Putin said that Russia was willing to engage in negotiations with anybody, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Putin told a reporter for a US news station that he had not talked to Trump in years but was prepared to meet with him to talk about the dispute in response to queries on state TV during his yearly Q&A session with Russians.
Putin denied that Russia was in a vulnerable situation, claiming that Russia had become more powerful since invading Ukraine in 2022. Putin said that while Russia was willing to engage in talks, Kyiv also needed to be ready to make concessions.
Additionally, Putin rejected the idea of a short-term ceasefire in favor of a long-term peace deal. “Further negotiations should build on an earlier, unexecuted proposal in Istanbul,” he said. However, several Ukrainian MPs saw this draft agreement as a capitulation.
Millions have been displaced, many have died, and relationships between Russia and the West have deteriorated as a result of the conflict. Despite the fact that Russia controls almost a sixth of Ukraine’s land, Putin justified the invasion as a defensive move against NATO expansion.
The soldiers should have been dispatched before 2022.
When asked whether he would do anything differently, Putin said that he should have put soldiers into Ukraine earlier than 2022, even though he had previously stated that he was open to having discussions with Trump about the issue. Additionally, he said that Russia ought to have been more prepared for the war.
When asked whether he had taken care of Russia, as previous Russian President Boris Yeltsin had requested before transferring power to him at the end of 1999, Putin responded in the affirmative.
Putin said, “We have moved back from the edge of the abyss,” according to Reuters.
“I have done everything to ensure that Russia is an independent and sovereign power that is able to make decisions in its own interests,” Putin said.
Regarding the “Oreshnik” hypersonic missile, which Russia has previously tested against a Ukrainian military facility, Putin said that he was prepared to plan another launch at Ukraine to test if Western air defense systems could destroy it.
In the interim. “Do you think he is a sane person?” Zelenskyy said in response to Putin’s missile offer during a news conference at a European Council meeting in Brussels.
