“Vladimir Putin Offers To Halt Ukraine iInvasion along Current Front Line,” screamed the Financial Times headline posted on April 22. “[Russian President] Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine at the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter,” FT claimed in the opening of its story. “The Russian president told Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, during a meeting in St Petersburg earlier this month that Moscow could relinquish its claims to areas of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kyiv’s control, three of the people said.
“The U.S. has since floated ideas for a possible settlement that includes Washington recognising Russian ownership of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, the people added, as well as at least acknowledging the Kremlin’s de facto control over the parts of the four regions it currently holds,” FT further claims. “The proposal is the first formal indication Putin has given since the war’s early months three years ago that Russia could step back from its maximalist demands to end the invasion.”
This FT article was raised in an interview Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov granted to RIA Novosti yesterday. “A lot of fakes are being published now, including by respected publications, so you should only listen to the primary sources,” he advised in response, reported RT.
