"“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters of the Russia-Ukraine war, Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. He said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Putin, who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister since the last day of 1999, faces a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, left swathes of Ukraine in ruins, and drained Russia’s economy."
"“They [the west] started ratcheting up the confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day. I think it [the war] is heading to an end but it’s still a serious matter. They spent months waiting for Russia to suffer a crushing defeat, for its statehood to collapse. It didn’t work out. And then they got stuck in that groove and now they can’t get out of it.”"
"Putin added that he was ready to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a third country only once all conditions for a potential peace agreement were settled holding to his usual position on a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart. “This should be the final point, not the negotiations themselves,” he said. Asked if he was willing to engage"
Putin said the Ukraine war is coming to an end and offered willingness to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe. He indicated Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schroder as a preferred negotiating partner. He also said he would be ready to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy only after conditions for a potential peace agreement are settled, while maintaining that the final point should come before negotiations themselves. Putin criticized Western support for Kyiv and claimed the West escalated confrontation with Russia. Russian forces have not taken all of the Donbas, advances have slowed, and Moscow controls just under one-fifth of Ukrainian territory. Relations with Europe are at their worst since the Cold War, while the war has caused massive casualties and economic strain in Russia.
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