Kateryna Chernoval 01:51, 11.05.25 UNIAN
In particular, he proposed resuming negotiations
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has made statements regarding the war the Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine.
The Kremlin ruler’s speech will traditionally be full of manipulation of facts and substitution of concepts. UNIAN has collected Putin’s key statements.
Dictator Putin accused Ukraine of numerous violations of the “truce” – a moratorium on energy strikes, an “Easter truce”, as well as a “truce” for May 9, declared unilaterally by Russia. The Russian ruler, not surprisingly, decided to remain silent about attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure and peaceful cities.
At the same time, according to him, Russia has conveyed to its colleagues in the West that Moscow may in the future extend the ceasefire declared on May 9. He did not mention the proposal for a ceasefire for 30 days.
He also announced 5 attempts to breach the Russian border, attacks on the Belgorod and Kursk regions. Everything, as is traditionally the case on RosTV, was “repulsed.”
Moreover, Putin accused Ukraine of trying to “intimidate” foreign leaders who came to Moscow on May 9.
“Who were they trying to intimidate? Those who came to us are leaders not by position. They are leaders by character,” he said.
Ukraine’s negotiations with Russia
The Kremlin dictator said that Russia had never refused to negotiate. He blamed Ukraine for the breakdown of the talks in 2022, and proposed to resume them on May 15 in Turkey, without preconditions. He will discuss this with Turkish leader Erdogan tomorrow.
“Russia is ready for negotiations without any preconditions. Now there are hostilities, a war. And we propose to resume negotiations that were interrupted not by us. What’s wrong with that? Those who really want peace cannot help but support this,” Putin continued to manipulate concepts.
North Korea’s participation in the war
The Kremlin leader officially recognized North Korea’s participation in the war against Ukraine, confirming that its troops “heroically” entered the battle against the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
It is noteworthy that Putin, in his typical manner, was very late for his press conference. And when journalists had already gathered, expecting the dictator to appear, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov came out to them and announced that the press would not be able to ask the Kremlin leader any questions.
He announced Putin’s statement after 4 working days, emphasizing that it would be “meaningful.”
Russia’s war against Ukraine: important news
Ukraine, European countries, and the United States have agreed to begin a full and unconditional ceasefire starting Monday, May 12. Consent to this is being sought from the Russian Federation.
“An unconditional ceasefire means without any conditions. An attempt to put forward any conditions is evidence of an intention to drag out the war and disrupt diplomacy. The ceasefire must be comprehensive – in the air, at sea, and on land,” President Zelenskyy said.
MailOnline ran the same story.
Their mods for once let me post a comment containing the word “putler.” :-
“Putler is a liar, a child murderer, a child kidnapper, a thief and a torturer. His “army” is an army of rapists. Negotiating with this international criminal is pointless at this time. Real, crushing sanctions must be imposed on him and the criminal regimes that support him. The defenders of Ukraine urgently need long range fires such as the German Taurus missile.”
It picked up 40 upvotes. Almost the same number downvoted it. Since tankies don’t read the DM, it’s obvious to see from which school of thought came the downvoters.
The original talks in Istanbul were so one-sided that Ukraine would never have agreed to them. One thing putler forgets, that when the original talks took place, russia controlled 28% of Ukraine, they now control 18% of Ukraine. So we can see it was a very wise decision by Ukraine.
As for the root causes of this war, putler needs to look in a mirror, he’ll see them.
Plus, Vladolf was never serious about peace talks. Another reason the Z-team left the so-called negotiations is that Vladolf kept changing his position. He would disagree with everything. Its like trying to nail jello to the wall.