{"id":2267841,"date":"2024-06-14T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-offers-immediate-ceasefire-with-several-conditions-ukraine-and-u-s-scoff\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:10:22","slug":"putin-offers-immediate-ceasefire-with-several-conditions-ukraine-and-u-s-scoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-offers-immediate-ceasefire-with-several-conditions-ukraine-and-u-s-scoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Proposes Immediate Ceasefire with Conditions; Ukraine and U.S. Dismiss Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-offers-immediate-ceasefire-with-several-conditions-ukraine-and-u-s-scoff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2267841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Russian President\u200c Vladimir Putin has proposed a cease-fire\u200b in Ukraine on the\u2062 condition that Ukraine withdraws troops from Moscow-annexed regions and renounces NATO membership. This proposal was made\u2062 amid international discussions on Ukraine&#8217;s\u2063 situation,\u200b including a security agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine,\u200c and upcoming peace talks planned\u200d without Moscow&#8217;s \u2063participation in Switzerland. \u2064Putin\u2019s terms for peace include \u2062Ukraine&#8217;s \u200crecognition of Crimea as Russian\u200d territory, maintaining a non-nuclear status,\u2062 limiting military capacity, and lifting\u2062 all Western sanctions against Russia. Ukraine dismissed Putin\u2019s proposal as manipulative\u2063 and unrealistic.\u2064 The U.S.\u2064 also criticized Putin, noting that he initiated\u200b the unwarranted conflict\u2063 and could\u2063 end it. Throughout the war, Putin\u2064 has \u2062maintained that Russia seeks peace, though Ukrainian and Western officials argue against the sincerity of \u2062these \u200cclaims, highlighting the continued aggression\u2062 and occupation by Russian forces.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/%20\"><span>The Associated Press<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 14, 2024 at 3:45am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/putin-commands-russian-govt-develop-video-game-console\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> promised Friday to \u201cimmediately\u201d order a cease-fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-publicly-apologizes-zelenskyy-announces-225-million-additional-ukraine-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Ukraine responded by calling Putin\u2019s proposal \u201cmanipulative\u201d and \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s remarks came as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/switzerland-practices-wartime-maneuver-first-time-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Switzerland<\/a> prepared to host scores of world leaders \u2014 but not from Moscow \u2014 this weekend to try to map out first steps toward peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>They also coincided with a meeting of leaders of the Group of Seven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-sign-of-friction-between-the-two-nations-putin-acknowledges-chinas-ukraine-concerns\/\" title=\"In Sign of Friction Between the Two Nations, Putin Acknowledges China\u2019s Ukraine Concerns\">leading industrialized nations<\/a> in Italy and after the U.S. and Ukraine this week also signed a 10-year security agreement that Russian officials, including Putin, denounced as \u201cnull and void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/putin-issues-nuclear-warning-west-draws-red-line-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Putin<\/a> blasted the Switzerland conference as \u201cjust another ploy to divert everyone\u2019s attention, reverse the cause and effect of the Ukrainian crisis (and) set the discussion on the wrong track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His proposal came in a speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry and was aimed at what he called a \u201cfinal resolution\u201d of the conflict rather than \u201cfreezing it,\u201d and stressed the Kremlin is \u201cready to start negotiations without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Broader demands for peace that Putin listed included Ukraine\u2019s recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, keeping the country\u2019s non-nuclear status, restricting its military force and protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population. All of these should become part of \u201cfundamental international agreements,\u201d and all Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted, Putin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re urging to turn this tragic page of history and to begin restoring, step-by-step, the unity between Russia and Ukraine and in Europe in general,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s remarks, made to a group of somber Foreign Ministry officials, represented a rare occasion in which he clearly laid out his conditions for ending the war in Ukraine, but it didn\u2019t include any new demands. The Kremlin has said before that Kyiv should recognize its territorial gains and drop its bid to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p>But Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Ministry called Putin\u2019s plan \u201cmanipulative,\u201d \u201cabsurd\u201d and designed to \u201cmislead the international community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-threatens-sanctions-over-israeli-settler-violence-against-west-bank-palestinians\/\" title=\"US threatens sanctions over Israeli settler violence against West Bank Palestinians\">undermine diplomatic efforts aimed<\/a> at achieving a just peace, and split the unity of the world majority around the goals and principles of the U.N. Charter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should Ukraine accept a ceasefire deal?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Besides wanting to join NATO, Ukraine demands that Russia withdraw its troops from all of its territory, including the Crimean Peninsula that was illegally annexed in 2014, restoring its territorial integrity, holding Russia accountable for war crimes and paying reparations to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Russia launched its a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. After Ukrainian forces thwarted a Russian drive to the capital, much of the fighting has focused in the south and east \u2013 and Russia illegally annexed regions in the east and the south, although it doesn\u2019t fully control any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on social media that there was nothing new in Putin\u2019s proposal and that the Russian leader \u201cvoiced only the \u2018standard aggressor\u2019s set,\u2019 which has been heard many times already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no novelty in this, no real peace proposals and no desire to end the war. But there is a desire not to pay for this war and to continue it in new formats. It\u2019s all a complete sham,\u201d Podolyak wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at NATO headquarters in Brussels that Putin \u201chas illegally occupied sovereign Ukrainian territory. He is not in any position to dictate to Ukraine what they must do to bring about a peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austin added that Putin \u201cstarted this war with no provocation. He could end it today if he chose to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin insisted Friday that Kyiv should withdraw from all four annexed regions entirely and essentially cede them to Moscow within their administrative borders. In Zaporizhzhia in the southeast, Russia still doesn\u2019t control the region\u2019s namesake administrative capital with a pre-war population of about 700,000, and in the neighboring Kherson region, Moscow withdrew from Kherson\u2019s biggest city and capital of the same name in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said that if \u201cKyiv and Western capitals\u201d reject his offer, \u201cit is their business, their political and moral responsibility for continuing the bloodshed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the war, the Kremlin has repeatedly aired its readiness for peace talks with Kyiv and blamed the West for undermining its efforts to end the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Putin went further Friday and claimed that his troops never intended to storm Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, even though they approached the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn essence, it was nothing other than an operation to force the Ukrainian regime to peace. The troops were there to push the Ukrainian side to negotiate, to try and find an acceptable solution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow withdrew from Kyiv in March 2022 and described it a goodwill gesture as peace talks between the two began, but the pullback took place amid fierce Ukrainian resistance that significantly slowed down Russia\u2019s battlefield advances.<\/p>\n<p>Putin also claimed that in that same month, he told one foreign official he wasn\u2019t ruling out withdrawing forces from the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and ceding occupied parts of them back to Ukraine, as long as Kyiv allowed Russia to have a \u201cstrong land connection\u201d to Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>He said the official planned on bringing that proposal to Kyiv \u2014 which Moscow \u201cwelcomed,\u201d as it generally welcomed \u201cattempts to find a peaceful resolution of the conflict.\u201d But the Kremlin then annexed both regions, along with the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, citing the results of sham \u201creferendums\u201d it staged there. Putin mentioned those and said that \u201cthe matter is closed forever and is no longer up for discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Western Journal has not reviewed this Associated Press story prior to publication. Therefore, it may contain editorial bias or may in some other way not meet our normal editorial standards. It is provided to our readers as a service from The Western Journal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-44902\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44902\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44902\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44902\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44902\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Associated Press is an independent, not-for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-case-involving-trump-17-house-democrats-and-the-biden-administration\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Trump, 17 House Democrats, and the Biden Administration\">-profit news cooperative headquartered<\/a> in New York City. 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