JAKARTA - President Putin said Russia is ready to negotiate a settlement of the Ukraine conflict at any time, even if it is held tomorrow, but he wants all parties involved to have to study their peace proposals.
"The proposal from our side is already on the table. It doesn't depend on us when all the actors interested in the negotiations will take what's on the table and start negotiating. They can do it tomorrow, but it's up to them when they want to do it," President Putin said, launching TASS June 21.
President Putin reiterated that neither himself nor Russia had rejected the idea of negotiating the Ukraine issue.
"As I said, it was not us who refused to negotiate. The Ukrainian side has banned itself from negotiating. Not us," said President Putin.
"We support him and never give up, but not on the basis of some mortal form, but on the agreement reached after nearly a month and a half of difficult negotiations in Istanbul and Minsk. This is the basis where we are ready to continue our dialogue with the Ukrainian side," he explained.
Regarding the location of the negotiations, President Putin added, Russia has no problem with the location to be chosen to hold negotiations.
"It doesn't matter where the negotiations take place: in Minsk, Istanbul, or Switzerland," said President Putin.
Last Friday, President Putin said Russia was ready to stop fighting and hold peace negotiations, from Ukraine to stop its NATO ambitions and withdraw its troops from the four Ukrainian territories claimed by Moscow.
Ahead of the peace conference in Switzerland that Russia did not follow, President Putin put forward a series of requirements that are completely contrary to the requirements requested by Ukraine.
"The requirements are very simple," said President Putin, who named them the full withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the entire Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions in Russia's eastern and southern Ukraine following the 2022 invasion.
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"Once they state in Kyiv it is ready for the decision and begin the actual troop withdrawal from these areas, and also officially announce the cancellation of their plans to join NATO - on our part, immediately, literally in the same minute, orders will follow to stop firing and start negotiations," he said.
"I repeat, we will do it soon. Of course, we will simultaneously guarantee the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops and formations without a hitch and safe," he said.
When the Ukrainian summit was held last weekend in Switzerland, President Putin's ceasefire requirement received firm resistance from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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