The Russian leader has not made any such proposal to the US, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
A media report suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin reached out to the US with an offer to freeze the Ukraine conflict is false, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.
On Tuesday, Reuters news agency claimed that Putin had contacted Washington through intermediaries to propose “a ceasefire in Ukraine to freeze the war.” However, according to three informed Russian sources who spoke to the agency, the US rejected the idea.
When asked by journalists on Wednesday about the report, Peskov responded: “No, this is not true.”
In his interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson last week, Putin said Russia maintains contacts with the US “through various agencies.”
According to the Russian leader, Moscow has told Washington many times that “if you really want to stop [the] fighting, you need to stop supplying weapons” to Ukraine.
In that happens, the conflict “will be over within a few weeks. That’s it. And then we can agree on some terms before you do that, stop,” he stressed.