President Vladimir Putin will not accept freeze the war in Ukraine along the current cutting edge, the Kremlin stated Wednesday, countering reports that he might think about such an arrangement in discussions with United States President-elect Donald Trump.The [Russian] president has actually repeatedly stated that any alternative of freezing the dispute wont work for us, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a daily rundown.
Its essential for us to accomplish our goals.Peskovs remarks followed a Reuters report mentioning anonymous sources suggesting Putin might be open to freezing hostilities and negotiating the division of Ukrainian territories presently under Russian occupation.However, reports suggest outgoing United States President Joe Bidens choice to enable Ukraine to use long-range weapons versus Russian targets might make complex any settlement, possibly motivating Moscow to continue fighting.Putin has actually repeatedly required that Ukraine abandon its NATO subscription aspirations and withdraw its forces from 4 regions partly occupied by Russia Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as prerequisites for peace talks.
Ukraine, in turn, demands a total withdrawal of Russian forces from those areas, along with Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
More recently, the Kremlin leaderhas revealed willingness to engage with Trump, who said he might end the war within 24 hours of taking workplace, though the president-elect has not revealed specifics of his plan.Russian officials and company elites previously told The Moscow Times that they see Trumps return to the White House as an opportunity to deteriorate European willpower and partly bring back relations with Washington.Putin apparently declared Russias working out position, including its security concerns and front-line status, in a current telephone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that was slammed by the Ukrainian authorities.Moscow and Kyiv have not taken part in direct peace talks since the early weeks of the invasion, which is carefully approaching its third-year mark.