Posted on 12/03/2025 9:27:59 AM PST by Navy Patriot
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin accepted some U.S. proposals aimed at ending the war in Ukraine and rejected others but that Russia was ready to meet U.S. negotiators as many times as it took to reach an agreement.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking after talks in Moscow between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner went into the early hours of Wednesday morning, with a Kremlin aide saying afterwards that "compromises have not yet been found."
Asked if it would be correct to say that Putin had rejected the U.S. proposals, Peskov said that it would not.
"A direct exchange of views took place yesterday for the first time," Peskov said. "Some things were accepted, some things were marked as unacceptable - this is a normal working process of finding a compromise."
Peskov said that Russia was grateful to Trump for his efforts but that the Kremlin would not be giving a running commentary on discussions with the United States as publicity was unlikely to be constructive.
"Work is currently being carried out at a working expert level," Peskov said. "It is at the expert level that certain results should be achieved that will then become the basis for contacts at the highest level."
A leaked set of 28 U.S. draft peace proposals emerged in November, alarming Ukrainian and European officials who said they bowed to Moscow's main demands.
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Putin on Tuesday said European powers were trying to sink the peace talks by proposing ideas which were absolutely unacceptable to Russia.
Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters after the Witkoff talks that Moscow had previously received a 27-point set of proposals and then four additional documents which were discussed with Witkoff.
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Western media, generally pro-Ukraine, absolutely covers this war as a PR struggle: “Putin humiliated, Putin’s parade spoiled, etc, etc”. Imagine “FDR humiliated by incident in Hawaii”.
“Areas accepted by Putin: No military for Ukraine, only territory the size of Estonia left for Ukraine, no diplomatic relations with any other country, all foreign relations and trade handled by the USSR...er, Russia, only government officials approved in Moscow can hold office in Ukraine. Putin smiled, “this is a worthwhile start!”
That’s the truth.
For the pro-Putinista butt kissing sycophants on FR (who by the way claim they hate bloodshed and really don’t), they all think it’s a great idea. But they don’t want “peace”. They actually do want war. They instead blame the rest of us out there for being warmongers.
Very Alinsky-like in their thinking.
If this can’t get settled in any kind of responsible way, it’s time to start re-arming Ukraine. Maybe just maybe more dead Russians, more sad babushkas and more destroyed military equipment will help Putin get the message.
apparently
Putin is like Hitler and Stalin, he will not have gotten the message even when he is dead and gone. Somehow that is in the Russian DNA. And the Russian government has never and does not now care a wit about casualties. They even kill their own who are slow or refuse to fight.
“Areas accepted by Putin: No military for Ukraine, only territory the size of Estonia left for Ukraine, no diplomatic relations with any other country, all foreign relations and trade handled by the USSR...er, Russia, only government officials approved in Moscow can hold office in Ukraine. Putin smiled, “this is a worthwhile start!”
Why did you post this? None of this was in the 28 points leaked recently. Why lie about it? Blatant, obvious lies.
Maybe I can read Putin’s mind after facing the Russians my whole Army career?
Putin has agreed to jerk around the US for a few more months.
“Maybe I can read Putin’s mind after facing the Russians my whole Army career?”
In other words, you pulled it all out of your fundament. What we have here is a a charter member of Keepers of Odd Knowledge Socirty.
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