Russian President Vladimir Putin is 'open to negotiations' on Ukraine but the West must accept Moscow's demands, the Kremlin said on Friday.
Speaking after talks on Thursday at the White House with French President Emmanuel Macron, Biden said he was ready to talk to Putin “if in fact there is an interest in him deciding he’s looking for a way to end the war,” adding the Russian leader “hasn’t done that yet.”We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“The president of the Russian Federation has always been, is and remains open to negotiations in order to ensure our interests,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.Article content He added that the search for ways to end the war was hindered by the U.S. refusal to recognize territory in Ukraine that Russia has annexed. Putin has proclaimed the southern region of Kherson and three other partly occupied regions of Ukraine to be part of Russia, in a move condemned as illegal by most countries.Article content
In the east, the town of Bakhmut is now the main target of Moscow’s artillery attacks, while Russian forces in Kherson and the Zaporizhzhia region remain on the defensive, Ukraine’s General Staff said in its latest battlefield update. Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a phone call that the Western line on Ukraine was “destructive” and urged Berlin to rethink its approach, the Kremlin said.
Ukraine and the West say Putin has no justification for what they cast as an imperial-style war of occupation.Three people were killed and seven wounded in Russian shelling of the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, the regional governor said on Friday.
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