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Vladimir Putin said he supported a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine but with “nuances” – a word that does a lot of heavy lifting.
At a press conference yesterday, the Russian president said the proposal should bring about an enduring peace that removes the “root causes” of the conflict.
From a man with Putin’s partial view of history, that could mean anything from Nato’s eastward expansion in the 1990s and early 2000s to the loss of land acquired under Catherine the Great.
In reality it should probably be taken to mean the existence of Ukraine as a sovereign state willing to join the EU and Nato.
Putin praised Trump for paying “so much attention” to the war and said if Russia and the US find common ground in the energy sector, Europe would “benefit from it, as it would receive cheap Russian gas”.
Quite an offer to Trump, whose envoy Steve Wiktoff was expected to meet Putin on Thursday night.
Photo credits: Maksym Kishka/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
