While in Borgo Egnazia the G7 renews its support for Kiev, complete with new military aid, also revealing the difference in positions with Pope Francis and his different idea of peace, from Moscow Putin proposes his own peace plan, liquidated in within a few minutes of Zelensky.
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Russia is ready for a ceasefire and the start of negotiations if Ukrainian troops completely withdraw from the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions and Kiev undertakes not to join NATO.
«Today – said Putin – we are making a proposal for real peace, we are talking not about freezing the conflict but about its total cessation. We urge to turn the tragic page of history and gradually restore relations with Ukraine and Europe." If the West and Ukraine refuse, they will assume "responsibility for the continuation of bloodshed."
The conditions posed by Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov specified, "are not an ultimatum, but a peace initiative that reflects the current situation".
Putin's request, explains Ria Novosti, in addition to renouncing 4 regions, provides that Kiev has "a neutral, non-aligned status and does not have nuclear weapons". He calls for what he calls the "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine.
«Of course, the rights, freedoms and interests of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine must be fully guaranteed, new territorial realities, the status of the republics of Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as subjects of the Russian Federation must be recognized", declared Putin again according to Ria Novosti, maintaining that "these basic and fundamental provisions will have to be registered in the form of fundamental international agreements and that naturally this also implies the abolition of all Western sanctions against Russia".
The proposal was rejected by Zelensky: «You can't trust it, it's the same thing Hitler did when he said 'give me a part of Czechoslovakia and it'll end here'. But they are lies, because afterwards there was Poland and then the occupation of all of Europe."
