Moscow proposed freezing military action along the current skirmish lines, unwilling to cede captured territories to Ukraine, the sources said.
The United States has refused to discuss Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine to end the war. Reuters reported this yesterday, citing several sources in Russia.
Moscow is said to have proposed freezing military operations along the current skirmish lines, unwilling to cede captured territories to Ukraine. According to sources, in 2023, Putin made it clear publicly, as well as privately through intermediaries, including through Moscow’s Arab partners in the Middle East, to the United States that he was ready to consider the possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine.
“The contacts with the Americans have led nowhere,” said an official familiar with the discussions in late 2023 and early 2024, speaking on condition of anonymity.
According to another Russian source, the United States, through mediators, told Moscow that it would not discuss a possible ceasefire without Ukraine’s participation, which is why the negotiations ended in failure. A third source familiar with the discussions said: “It all fell to the Americans.”
At the same time, the source of the agency in the United States said that there is no official contact between Moscow and Washington and emphasized that the Americans will not conduct negotiations with Russia that affect the interests of Ukraine without the participation of Kyiv.
The scale of the negotiations and their failure have not been reported before, Reuters notes. The Kremlin, White House, State Department and CIA declined to comment on the agency.
At the same time, Kremlin Speaker Dmitry Peskov said in a February 14 briefing about the Reuters article that “this is not true.”
And Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that Moscow expects “serious proposals” regarding Ukraine, taking into account “the facts on the ground.”
In this regard, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky previously stated that now is a “bad moment” for negotiations with Russia. The head of state is ready for a long war.
Source: korrespondent
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