The Kremlin on Friday denied a Bloomberg report that President Vladimir Putin was “placing out emotions” to the United States for attainable talks on ending the warfare in Ukraine and would possibly take into account dropping key calls for on Ukraine’s safety standing.
The Bloomberg report stated Putin was “testing the waters” on whether or not Washington was prepared to interact in talks, and had reached out to the United States through oblique channels.
It cited two individuals near the Kremlin as saying Putin “could also be keen to think about dropping an insistence on impartial standing for Ukraine and even in the end abandon opposition to eventual NATO membership – the specter of which has been a central Russian justification for the invasion”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was requested by reporters concerning the story, and particularly whether or not Moscow was actually prepared to surrender its calls for on neutrality and NATO.
“No, it is a unsuitable report. It completely doesn’t correspond to actuality,” Peskov stated.