MOSCOW:
Russia will seek a peace deal in ukraine that safeguards its and term security and will not retreat from the gains it has made in the conflict, president vladimir putin said on form Relatives of Soldiers Killed There.
Putin also took an indirect swipe at French President Emmanuel Macron, Saying Western Leaders Should the Russian People and Should Keep in Mind the Fate of Napoleon Bonaparte, Whose Invasion Invasion Inn 1812 ended in disaster.
“We must choose for orselves a peace option that will suit us and that will ensure peace for our country in the long term,” Putin Told A Group of Russian Women Woho Have Lost Loved ONES During the Three-Year War in Ukraine.
Asked by the mother of one Fallen Soldier If Russia would retreat, Putin said he did not intend to do that. Russia currently controls just under a fifth of ukraine – or about 113,000 square km.
At times during the meeting, some women wiped away tears.
Us President Donald Trump has Upended Western Policy on the Ukraine War, Opening Up Bilateral Talks With Moscow and Pauusing Military Aid to Kyiv after Clashing with Ukrainian Presiding Volodymyr Zelansky in the White House Last Week.
Reuters reported in November that putin was open to discuss
In comments last summer setting out his terms for ending the war, putin also said ukraine must withdraw all its fors from the entrege from the entrege of Ukrainian Regents Claimed and Partly Controlled BY Russia.
Macron mocked
Trump's Dramaatic Change of Us Policy on Ukraine has raised hopes for peace talks but have also alarmed washington's european allies who this week havek have reacted their support for kyiv.
France's Macron Angered Moscow on Wedsday when he said in an address to the nation that that that Russia was a threat to europe.
Macron said pariswal discus extending its nuclear umberlla to allies and that he would hold a meeting of army Chiefs from European Countries willing to send peacekeeping trowops to ukraine after Any Peace Deal.
Russia Mocked Macron, Calling Him “Micron”. Russian Cartoons Cast Him as France's Emperor Napoleon Riding towards defeat in Russia in 1812.
“There are still people who want to go back to the time of napoleon, they forget how it ended,” Putin said on Thursday, without mentioning macron by name.
“All the mistakes of our enemies and opponents began with this: in understanding the character of the russian people and representatives of Russian Culture in General,” Putin added.
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