Reuters claim: America rejected Putin’s ceasefire proposal in Ukraine

according to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, Reuters quoted Russian sources as adding that Putin will publicly and Privately, through intermediaries, including through Moscow’s Arab partners in the Middle East and others, he sent signals to Washington that he was ready to consider a ceasefire in Ukraine.

A senior Russian source familiar with the talks in late 2023 and early 2024 told Reuters: “The call with the Americans did not come to fruition.”

A second Russian source familiar with the calls told Reuters that the Americans had told Moscow through intermediaries that they would not discuss a possible ceasefire without Ukraine’s participation, so the calls failed. faced.

A third source claimed: Everything was messed up by the Americans. The Americans did not want to pressure Ukraine.

A US official in Washington stated that the US has not engaged in any mediation talks with Russia. There appear to have been informal “Track II” talks among non-government Russians, but the United States was not involved.

The US official said. Putin’s proposal, based on what has been publicly reported, is unchanged from Russia’s past demands to preserve Ukrainian territory. Putin told American talk show host Tucker Carlson last week that Russia was ready to “talk”.

The mediators will meet in Turkey in late 2023, according to three Russian sources. They did.

A fourth diplomatic source said there had been contacts through intermediaries between Russia and the US at the initiative of Moscow, but they did not appear to bear fruit. The US official said he was unaware of any informal contact through intermediaries.

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