Putin says Russia ready to negotiate over Ukraine, Kyiv says Moscow doesn't want talks



Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a information convention after a assembly of the State Council on young adults coverage in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Pool via REUTERS 


• Summary

• Putin says West attempting to break up Russia
• Accuses Kyiv, West of refusing to barter
• Ukraine: Putin wants to come lower back to fact
• Zelenskiy: Moscow aiming to make rest of 2022 darkish and difficult

MOSCOW, Dec 25 () - Russia is ready to barter with all parties involved within the war in Ukraine however Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview aired on Sunday.

Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has induced the maximum deadly European conflict because World War Two and the largest war of words amongst Moscow and the West due to the fact the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

There is, thus far, little cause sight to the war.

The Kremlin says it will fight until all its targets are finished on the equal time as Kyiv says it'll no longer relaxation till every Russian soldier is ejected from all of its territory.

"We are equipped to negotiate with anybody involved approximately relevant answers, but that is up to them - we are not those refusing to barter, they may be," Putin informed Rossiya 1 kingdom tv.

An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Putin had to return to fact and famend it become Russia which did no longer need talks.

"Russia unmarried-handedly attacked Ukraine and is killing citizens," the adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted. "Russia would not want negotiations, but tries to keep away from duty."

Russian attacks on strength stations have left thousands and thousands with out strength, and Zelenskiy stated Moscow may want to purpose to make the previous few days of 2022 darkish and hard.

"Russia has misplaced the entirety it is able to this 12 months. ... I realize darkness will no longer prevent us from main the occupiers to new defeats. But we want to be prepared for any state of affairs," he said in an middle of the night video address.

The Ukrainian protection force' stylish team of workers stated there was nonetheless a risk of air and missile strikes on critical infrastructure throughout the u . S . A ..

Russian troops had shelled dozens of cities and positions alongside the the the front line, it said in a Facebook post.

Zelenskiy, regarding a strike on the southern town of Kherson on Saturday that officers say killed at the least 10 human beings, vowed, "We will find each Russian assassin".

Putin accused the West of trying to cleave Russia aside.

"I agree with that we're appearing in the proper route, we're defensive our national hobbies, the pursuits of our residents, our humans. And we have no other preference but to shield our citizens," Putin said.

Asked if the geopolitical warfare with the West was drawing near a volatile degree, Putin stated: "I do not think it is so volatile."

Putin said the West had all started the battle in 2014 via toppling a seasoned-Russian Ukrainian president within the Maidan Revolution protests.

Soon after, Russia annexed Crimea and Russian-sponsored separatist forces began preventing in eastern Ukraine.

"Actually, the essential detail here is the policy of our geopolitical fighters it's aimed at pulling aside Russia, historical Russia," Putin stated.

Putin casts the struggle in Ukraine, which he calls a "special navy operation," as a watershed 2nd whilst Moscow sooner or later stood as much as a Western bloc that he says has been seeking out to break Russia for the purpose that Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

Ukraine and the West say Putin has no justification for what they solid as an imperial-fashion war of profession.

Putin described Russia as a "specific u . S ." and stated the considerable majority of its humans have been united in trying to protect it.

"As for the primary detail - the 99.Nine% of our citizens, our people who are equipped to offer everything for the pursuits of the Motherland – there is not whatever unusual for me right right here," Putin said.

"This really once more convinces me that Russia is a very precise united states and that we have got an exceptional people. This has been showed for the duration of the statistics of Russia's existence."

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