President Vladimir Putin’s deputy chief of staff, Dmitry Kozak, had hammered out a deal with Kyiv at the start of the war that would keep Ukraine out of NATO, but the Kremlin strongman report…
Russian President Vladimir Putin scrapped a peace deal with Ukraine that had been negotiated by his top envoy at the start of the war, and instead forged ahead with the bloody invasion to conquer more of the neighboring country’s territory, a new report claims.
Asked about Reuters report, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov categorically denied that Putin had pulled the plug on a peace deal, saying: “That has absolutely no relation to reality. No such thing ever happened. It is absolutely incorrect information.”Kremlin’s deputy chief of staff Dmitry Kozak gives a press conference at the Russian Ambassador’s residence in Paris.
“After Feb. 24, Kozak was given carte blanche: they gave him the green light; he got the deal. He brought it back and they told him to clear off. Everything was canceled. Putin simply changed the plan as he went along,” said one of the sources close to the Russian leadership. Kozak was well-placed to negotiate a peace deal because since Putin had tasked him in 2020 with conducting talks about the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which has been controlled by Russian-backed separatists following an uprising in 2014.
State television cameras recorded part of the meeting, where Putin laid out plans to give formal recognition to separatist entities in eastern Ukraine.
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