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[Regnum] Russia is in favor of a complete and final end to the conflict. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Russia is in favor of a complete and final end to the conflict, Putin noted.
“And this should not be just a truce or a temporary ceasefire, not some kind of pause that the Kiev regime could use to recover losses, regroup and rearm,” the Russian leader added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the day before, Putin, during his speech at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana, stated that the plan proposed by Russia to resolve the conflict in Ukraine would allow for an immediate end to military actions and the initiation of a negotiation process. The head of state noted that Moscow has always advocated a peaceful and political-diplomatic resolution to the Ukrainian crisis, which, as Putin emphasized, arose as a result of the unceremonious policies of the United States and its satellites.
On June 14, the Russian leader named the conditions necessary for a ceasefire. One of them is Ukraine's refusal to join NATO. According to the second condition, Kiev must withdraw its troops from the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, as well as the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics. At the same time, Putin ruled out the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine as a condition for starting negotiations.
On June 20, the President recalled that Moscow is ready for negotiations with the Ukrainian side on the basis of the Minsk and Istanbul agreements. So far, there are no signals about readiness for negotiations from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the head of state added.
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Putin says Kyiv is still not ready to agree to a ceasefire
[Regnum] The Ukrainian leadership is still not ready to give up on continuing the conflict until a victorious end, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists on July 5 following a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Kremlin.
“As we see the state of affairs, including taking into account what we heard today from the Prime Minister, Kiev is still not ready to abandon military action until a victorious end,” Putin said.
The Russian leader also suggested that the Ukrainian leadership rejects the idea of a ceasefire, since then the pretext for extending martial law will disappear and presidential elections will have to be held. But since the current leaders have completely lost legitimacy, and their ratings have collapsed, their chances of winning the vote are close to zero.
Putin said that Russia remains open to discussing a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict, but Kiev does not want this.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, Orban arrived in Moscow on July 5 to discuss with the Russian president the possibility of settling the Ukrainian conflict. Orban stated on social media that he had arrived in Russia to continue the "peace mission." During his visit to Kiev on July 2, the Hungarian prime minister proposed to the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, to cease fire in order to begin negotiations with Russia, but he rejected the proposal.
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