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Putin proposes direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, 'without preconditions
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Posted on 05/10/2025 4:38:35 PM PDT by janetjanet998

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1 posted on 05/10/2025 4:38:35 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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Interesting. No mention if Trump. You mean they’ll settle it by themselves? Trump’s the big elephant (not) in the room.


2 posted on 05/10/2025 4:40:36 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To sum up

He offered to restart talks that Boris Johnson sabotaged in 2022 right before they were close to a deal

The “root causes” of the conflict must be addressed he said

This is really nothing new but throws the ball back to Z and his European handlers


3 posted on 05/10/2025 4:41:10 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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Putin offers nothing of substance. Just recycled gaslighting talking points from years ago. And more genocidal mass murder
in the historical Russian way, of course.


4 posted on 05/10/2025 4:43:52 PM PDT by lodi90
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Russia was ready to end the war and withdraw its troops in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality just a few months after the invasion began and was refused partly because of ex-British PM Boris Johnson, who pressured Kyiv into continuing the fight, David Arahamiya, the leader of Ukraine’s ruling party confirmed in a recent interview, published on Friday, November 24th.


5 posted on 05/10/2025 4:44:42 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden 2028? )
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Yes

Plus he didn’t accept the 30 day cease fire


6 posted on 05/10/2025 4:48:10 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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Why should any country have to be “neutral” in order to avoid attack by those murderous pigs.
Putin got the hundreds of thousands of Russians dead that he so richly deserved. But they didn’t deserve dying for nothing.
And what would have happened to poor little Russia if it didn’t attack? Absolutely not a damn thing.
And is Ukraine “neutral” as a result? Absolutely not.


7 posted on 05/10/2025 4:51:58 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Wonder why these announcements are coming out at 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. Moscow and Kiev time?


8 posted on 05/10/2025 4:55:16 PM PDT by Allegra ( Thank you. I appreciate the analogical parallelism.)
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Seems he is just stalling to avoid sanctions.


9 posted on 05/10/2025 4:55:37 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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>>Interesting. No mention if Trump. You mean they’ll settle it by themselves?

Maybe they’ll just enter the octagon and resolve it that way.


10 posted on 05/10/2025 4:59:57 PM PDT by mbrfl
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Seems he is just stalling to avoid sanctions.
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Plus a great PR move

Many on X don’t understand that Russia has always insisted on direct talks with Ukraine that directs the root cause of the problem since Boris Johnson talked Ukraine out of a deal in 2022

They think this is something new


11 posted on 05/10/2025 5:00:17 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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>>Interesting. No mention if Trump. You mean they’ll settle it by themselves?

Notice how Trump hasn’t said anything yet

I think he knows that Ukraine and Europe will reject this since there is no cease fire


12 posted on 05/10/2025 5:01:46 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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Seems he is just stalling to avoid sanctions.


Of maybe he’s just Stalin.

(Get it, Stalin? Bwahahahaha......Ok, I’ll stop now!)


13 posted on 05/10/2025 5:04:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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There is truth to the statement Putin is just stalling to avoid sanctions.

I mean what other ploy does Putin of why he would consider to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine that HE created?


14 posted on 05/10/2025 5:05:25 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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“Putin offers nothing of substance. Just recycled gaslighting talking points from years ago. And more genocidal mass murder in the historical Russian way, of course.”

Thank you for your truth-filled comment


15 posted on 05/10/2025 5:07:27 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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The stinking rotten Eutopeans will try to scuttle the deal. Grifters.


16 posted on 05/10/2025 5:08:44 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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“Or maybe he’s just Stalin.

(Get it, Stalin? Bwahahahaha......Ok, I’ll stop now!)”

Good one, thanks! ROTFL


17 posted on 05/10/2025 5:09:39 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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Not a good development for the Zeepers.
18 posted on 05/10/2025 5:11:15 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden 2028? )
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That makes Boris Johnson responsible for all the deaths in 33 months of continued war.


19 posted on 05/10/2025 5:13:50 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes
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Russia wants to restart these negotiations
I should point out Russia still insisted on these demands with the US back in the March talks

2022 talks

In terms of territorial concessions, Ukraine was expected to cede Crimea and the Donbas region outright, while also accepting the ongoing occupation of areas then under Russian control until Moscow deemed that its conditions had been fully met. Kyiv would also have been forced to grant Russian the status of official state language and adopt a range of laws targeting Ukrainian religion, history, and national identity that harked back the russification policies of the Soviet and Tsarist empires.

The most detailed and revealing segment of the draft peace treaty dealt with Ukraine’s demilitarization. Russia called for the Ukrainian army to be drastically reduced to a skeleton force of just fifty thousand personnel. This was approximately one-fifth of the prewar total and a tiny fraction of Ukraine’s current military, which is believed to number around one million soldiers. Meanwhile, tight restrictions were to be imposed on the quantity of armor Ukraine could possess, the types of missiles the country could develop, and the size of the Ukrainian Air Force.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-2022-peace-proposal-was-a-blueprint-for-the-destruction-of-ukraine/


20 posted on 05/10/2025 5:14:09 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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