RUSSIAN dictator Vladimir Putin has said he his ready for peace talks with Ukraine amid the ongoing war.
The despot has raged an illegal invasion on Ukrainian soil for more than two years and has now said he is “ready to negotiate” just weeks after Ukrainian soldiers burst into Russia.
EPARussian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine over two years ago[/caption]
Ukrainian troops on the frontline
Putin insisted it would last weeks – but Kyiv’s troops have held strong
Putin said the Kremlin is willing to revisit a failed deal from mediated talks between Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul early on in the war.
He said: “Are we ready to negotiate with them?
“We have never refused to do so, but not on the basis of some ephemeral demands, but on the basis of those documents that were agreed and actually initialled in Istanbul.”
A preliminary agreement between Russia and Ukraine was reached in Istanbul talks not long after the war began – but was never implemented.
Ageing Putin, 71, said China, India and Brazil could act as mediators in potential new peace talks.
It comes mere weeks after Ukraine launched a surprise attack on August 6 from the Sumy province – near the border with Russia.
They now claim to control over 500 square miles of Putin’s territory in Russia’s worst defeat on home soil since the end of World War Two.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky said the blitz was part of a master plan to help end the war.
It served a humiliating blow to Putin’s efforts – as the so-called “special operation” he said would last just weeks in early 2022 is now approaching the three-year mark.
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