Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscowβs conditions for ending the war in Ukraine remain unchanged, offering no sign of compromise even as the United States intensifies pressure for a negotiated settlement nearly four years into the conflict.
Opening his annual end-of-year press conference, Putin said Russia was prepared to end the war peacefully β but only on the terms he first laid out in June 2024, including Ukraine abandoning its NATO ambitions and withdrawing from four regions Moscow claims as Russian territory.
βWe have always said this: we are ready and willing to end this conflict peacefully,β Putin said, adding that any settlement must address what he called the βroot causesβ of the crisis.
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