As Ukraine’s offensive into the Kursk region was ongoing, Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday has backslide that he was ready for talks with Kyiv, after rejecting the idea of negotiations previously.
In early August, Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into the southwestern Kursk region seizing dozens of towns and villages as well as sending thousands of troops across the border.
The development had angered Putin who said there could be no talk of negotiations with Kyiv.
But, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Putin said Moscow was ready for talks but based on aborted negotiators reached in Istanbul in 2022 between Russian and Ukrainian which were never made public.
“Are we ready to negotiate with them? We have never refused to do so, not based on some ephemeral demands, but based on those documents that were agreed upon and signed in Istanbul.
“We managed to reach an agreement, that is the whole point,” Putin said Thursday. “The signature of the head of the Ukrainian delegation who supported this document testifies to this, which means that the Ukrainian side was generally satisfied with the agreements reached.”
“It did not come into force only because they were given a command not to do so, because the elites of the United States, Europe [and] some European countries wanted to achieve a strategic defeat of Russia,” the Russian leader said.
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