Putin says he sees no willingness from Kyiv to discuss territories, but signals for dialogue remain

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said that he does not currently see Ukraine's readiness to bring to an end the war Russia has started, since Kyiv does not want to discuss territories, but he has added that there are still "certain signals" of Ukraine's readiness for dialogue.

Source: Putin during a press conference on 19 December

Details: During the press conference, Putin was asked how "peace talks" were progressing if the president of Ukraine had said that Kyiv was not ready to discuss the "territorial issue". He responded that Russia did not yet see such readiness from Ukraine.

He then once again started talking about the "2014 coup", about the desire to "protect the population" and other pseudo-reasons he uses to try to justify Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Quote: "But all the same, we see, feel and know about certain signals, including from the Kyiv regime, that they are ready to conduct some sort of dialogue. We have also always said: we are ready and we want to end the conflict by peaceful means."

More details: At the same time, he once again repeated that his "peaceful means" should be based "on the principles" he set out in June last year at the Russian Foreign Ministry, and on eliminating what he called the root causes that led to this crisis (Russia's attack on Ukraine).

Reportedly, Putin has said that, to end the war he had started, Ukraine must withdraw its troops from the territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts within their administrative borders and renounce joining NATO.

The Kremlin leader also asserts that supposedly "Russia is advancing along the entire front line, and the enemy is retreating in all directions".

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