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Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would end the war in Ukraine in return for sweeping land demands and an end to Ukraine’s ambition of joining Nato.
Kyiv dismissed the proposal from the Russian President as “absurd”, claiming he was “offering for Ukraine to admit defeat”.
Mr Putin set out conditions wholly at odds with the terms sought by Ukraine, including a demand that Kyiv hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow.
He also restated his demand for Ukraine’s demilitarisation and repeated a call for Ukraine’s “denazification”, despite no evidence of neo-Nazi activity in the country’s leadership.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters: “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.”
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskytold Italy’s SkyTG24 news channel: “These are ultimatum messages that are …
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