Posted on 04/01/2025 7:53:58 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia cannot accept U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not address problems Moscow regards as having caused the conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, suggesting U.S.-Russia talks on the subject had stalled.
The comments by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggest Moscow and Washington have so far been unable to bridge differences which President Vladimir Putin raised more than two weeks ago when he said U.S. proposals needed reworking.
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"We take the models and solutions proposed by the Americans very seriously, but we can't accept it all in its current form," Ryabkov was quoted by state media as telling the Russian magazine "International Affairs" in an interview released on Tuesday.
"As far as we can see, there is no place in them today for our main demand, namely to solve the problems related to the root causes of this conflict. It is completely absent, and that must be overcome."
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Asked about Trump's latest remarks about wanting Putin to do a deal on Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier on Tuesday that Moscow was "continuing our contacts with the American side".
"The subject is very complex. The substance that we are discussing, related to the Ukrainian settlement, is very complex. This requires a lot of extra effort."
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Cage match between Z and Vlad.
Of course KGB Putin wouldn’t accept!
no one with half a brain would expect him to considering his dream to to reassemble the old soviet union!
Only someone stupid doesn't realize those are the options.
The only purpose in continuing is to try to drive out people in the annexed area that absolutely DO NOT want to be part of Ukraine again.
But, sick butcher like you wants to see the people in the annexed drive out of their homeland while thousands more Ukrainian conscripts die fighting a war they can't win.
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