Putin’s Offer To Achieve a Ceasefire With Ukraine by Freezing Battle Lines Is Met With Skepticism in the West
Seeming bid for peace does come at a time when the war is not going well for the Russians and comes ahead of a peace parley being readied at Switzerland.
President Putin’s offer, through intermediaries, to achieve a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire by freezing battle lines in place, is being met with skepticism in Ukraine and Western Europe today. Four Putin aides tell Reuters that Mr. Putin, who started his sixth term earlier this month, does not want to be stuck with a forever war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tells Reuters that Russia does not want “eternal war.”
Analysts said today that Mr. Putin made an offer to take the wind out of the sails of an 80-country Ukraine peace conference that President Zelenskiy is holding in two weeks in Switzerland. Mr. Putin is not invited. Standing in the bombed-out ruins of a book publisher at Kharkiv, Ukraine’s president recorded a video appeal inviting the two world leaders who could make a difference: President Biden and President Xi.
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