Posted on 02/02/2023 1:47:45 PM PST by fluorescence
The White House and the CIA have responded to a report that CIA Director, William Burns, offered Russian President Vladimir Putin a fifth of Ukraine's territory to end the ongoing war as part of a peace plan drawn up on behalf of President Joe Biden.
A CIA official told Newsweek that claims in the report from Swiss-German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) that Burns took a secret trip to Moscow in January and that there was a peace proposal put forward by the director on behalf of the White House were "completely false."
Last month, Burns traveled in secret to meet and brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, The Washington Post reported.
Burns is said to have submitted the plan in mid-January to put an end to the war, which began on February 24, 2022. The story was reported by NZZ on Thursday, citing high-ranking German foreign politicians.
Both Kyiv and Moscow reportedly rejected the proposal.
Newsweek reached out to the foreign ministries of Ukraine and Russia for comment.
According to the newspaper, the proposal offered "around 20 percent of Ukraine's territory"—approximately the size of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
Kyiv reportedly shut down the proposal "because they are not willing to have their territory divided" while Russian officials said they "will win the war in the long run anyway," reported NZZ, which has been described as the Swiss newspaper of record.
Sean Davett, the deputy spokesperson at White House's National Security Council, told Newsweek that the report from NZZ is "not accurate," and that the CIA would say the same.
According to the news outlet the German politicians said Biden wanted to avoid a protracted war in Ukraine, and so, offered the territory as part of the peace plan.
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1919 was the year Bolsheviks invaded Ukraine from Russia. Nothing new under the sun.
Yep.
Why do you think nearly all Russia’s neighbors want to be in NATO? Could it be the history of misery and death Russia has brought to them? Do they have a God given right not to live as slaves in the Russian World? Reagan and I would say yes. The Kremlin’s fellow travelers, obviously, would disagree.
Nothing has changed. A year ago Putin and his ilk thought Ukraine was part of Russia and Ukrainians were just “bad” Russians. Tomorrow you’ll think the same. The only question is if you’ll admit it.
Sweet of the US President to give away territory belonging to another sovereign country.
Why do I feel like a German citizen in 1942?
Are we the country that is now the evil in the world?
Shut your $***hole... LOSER.
IIRC, years ago, Biden wanted to chop up Iraq into at least three pieces. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12572371
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Z%C3%BCrcher_Zeitung founded in 1780
Because United States is a super duper power
Fake.
If I am getting flak it must be because I am over the target.
9) Hunter was not only involved in Ukrainian Biolabs.
In fact, his actual boss at Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, was also the boss of Volodymyr Zelensky before he became Ukraine’s president.
What a coincidence, right?https://t.co/Z7VL2YQB9N— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 2, 2023
> Verdict: Our gov is lying to us, again.
Bingo. Credibility once lost is very hard to regain.
20% of territory is not why Putin is in the Ukraine and Biden’s handlers know it. Joey doesn’t know what day it is.
Yep.
Clown rating for your eruptions art.
All of Russias neighbors were not asking to be nato members till this fiasco
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russia-and-color-revolution
As I read the entirety of the article, the less I believe it to be true.
Our nation is better than that. Our Leaders are not.
Sounds believable.
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