{"id":280589,"date":"2024-11-18T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=280589"},"modified":"2024-11-18T04:53:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T04:53:24","slug":"putin-tells-german-leader-that-ukraine-peace-deal-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/11\/putin-tells-german-leader-that-ukraine-peace-deal-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz in the Kremlin in Moscow. Wikimedia<\/p><\/div>\n

15 Nov 2024 – Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time in two years today.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin held <\/a>a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and offered to end the war in Ukraine. The Russian leader offered a deal similar to one proposed by Moscow in June.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Scholz spoke with Putin for the first time in nearly two years. According <\/a>to the Kremlin, \u201cThe Russian president noted that the Russian side has never refused and remains open to the resumption of the negotiations that were interrupted by the Kiev regime.\u201d Adding, \u201cRussia\u2019s proposals are well known and outlined, in particular, in a June speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that speech<\/a>, Putin said that if Ukrainian forces withdrew from all Russian annexed territory, adopted a position of neutrality between NATO and Russia, agreed to denazification and demilitarization of the country, and the lifting of all Western sanctions on Moscow, then Russia would bring the war to an end.<\/p>\n

Scholz\u2019s spokesman said that the German and Russian leaders agreed to remain in contact. The official added that Scholz \u201ccondemned the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and called on President Putin to end it and withdraw his troops.\u201d He also told Putin, Berlin maintains \u201csteadfast determination\u201d to support Ukraine for \u201cas long as is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the Joe Biden administration, the West has refused to talk with Moscow about core national security issues. The refusal to negotiate throughout 2021, led Putin to invade Ukraine in the beginning of 2022. After the initial Russian invasion of Ukraine, a deal was nearly reached, but Kiev has been pushed away from negotiations by its Western backers.<\/p>\n

After over two and a half years of war, Kiev is struggling to find the manpower to continue the fight while losing territory to the Russian military. Though NATO countries pledged to give Ukraine everything it needed to win the war, Washington has refused to provide Ukraine with advanced weapons and long-range missiles Kiev says it needs to achieve a victory.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of <\/em>Antiwar.com, news editor of the <\/em>Libertarian Institute<\/a>, and co-host of <\/em>Conflicts of Interest<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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