Russian chief says Moscow is prepared to barter over Ukraine, slams West for making an attempt to ‘tear aside historic Russia’.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Moscow is prepared for talks to finish the 10-month conflict in Ukraine, as he slammed Western nations for making an attempt to “tear aside the historic Russia”.
Putin’s feedback, aired on Sunday, got here amid continued Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities, together with within the Kharkiv and Zaporizhia areas and had been instantly dismissed by a senior official in Kyiv. The US has additionally beforehand described Putin’s stance as insincere due to the continued assaults.
Within the interview aired on Moscow’s Rossiya 1 tv, Putin mentioned, “we're prepared to barter with everybody concerned about acceptable options”. However “that's as much as them — we aren't those refusing to barter, they're,” he mentioned.
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, nevertheless, mentioned Putin wanted to return to actuality and acknowledge it was Russia that didn't need talks.
“Russia single-handedly attacked Ukraine and is killing residents,” the adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted. “Russia doesn’t need negotiations, however tries to keep away from accountability.”
Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, with the acknowledged purpose of toppling the so-called “neo-nazi regime” in Ukraine, triggering the deadliest European battle since World Warfare Two and the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West because the 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster.
The Russian chief mentioned the West had begun the battle in 2014 by toppling a pro-Moscow Ukrainian president within the Maidan Revolution protests. Quickly after, Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed separatist forces started preventing in japanese Ukraine.
“Really, the basic factor right here is the coverage of our geopolitical opponents which is aimed toward tearing aside Russia, historic Russia,” Putin mentioned, referring to an idea that argues that Ukrainians and Russians are one individuals.
“They [the West] have at all times tried to ‘divide and conquer’ … Our objective is one thing else — to unite the Russian individuals,” he mentioned.
“We're appearing in the appropriate course, we're defending our nationwide pursuits, the pursuits of our residents, of our individuals,” he added.
When requested if the geopolitical battle with the West was approaching a harmful degree, Putin mentioned: “I don’t suppose it’s so harmful.”
The remarks come as Ukraine introduced a country-wide air raid alert twice on Sunday.
Three missiles hit town of Kramatorsk within the partially-occupied Donetsk area within the afternoon, native officers reported later. The missiles hit an industrial space of town, and there have been no casualties, in accordance with the Ukrainian governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Ukraine’s prime navy command additionally reported 10 Russian assaults on the Kupiansk district within the Kharkiv area. It mentioned Moscow’s forces shelled greater than 25 cities alongside the Kupiansk-Lyman entrance line and hit practically 20 others within the Zaporizhia area.
A day earlier than, a Russian assault on the southern metropolis of Kherson, retaken by Ukrainian forces final month, killed and wounded dozens of individuals. The Russian forces shelled Ukrainian-held areas of the partially-occupied Kherson area 71 occasions over the previous 24 hours, together with 41 assaults on town of Kherson, the area’s Ukrainian Governor Yaroslav Yanushevich reported on Sunday.
A complete of 16 individuals have been killed, in accordance with the official, together with three emergency staff killed within the technique of demining the Berislav district of the area. Yanushevich mentioned that 64 extra have been wounded.
In the meantime, relentless Russian assaults on power-generating services since October have repeatedly left thousands and thousands of Ukrainians with out warmth and water.
The Kremlin has mentioned it is going to battle till all its territorial goals are achieved, whereas Ukraine says it is not going to relaxation till each Russian soldier is ejected from the nation.
Putin on Sunday described Russia as a “distinctive nation” and mentioned the overwhelming majority of its individuals had been united in desirous to defend it.
“As for the principle half — the 99.9 % of our residents, our people who find themselves prepared to present every thing for the pursuits of the Motherland — there's nothing uncommon for me right here,” he mentioned.
“This simply as soon as once more convinces me that Russia is a singular nation and that now we have an distinctive individuals. This has been confirmed all through the historical past of Russia’s existence.”
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