Vladimir Putin has expressed his dissatisfaction over Ukraine's reluctance to engage in negotiations and condemned the Ukrainian side, saying that but for them, "it would all have been over long ago".
The president of the aggressor state made the comments at a meeting with the heads of the municipalities of the constituent entities that make up the Russian Federation.
Source: broadcast of Putin’s speech; Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.
Quote: "Having refused to negotiate, they did exactly that!
Details: Putin also started to gripe about how former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had abandoned agreements with Russia.
says it directly: ‘If we had agreed on it, this would have ended a year and a half ago’.".
Putin went on to describe President Zelenskyy’s Peace Formula as "a continuation of the implementation of the decree of the President of Ukraine on a prohibition on negotiating with Russia". »