Putin proposes direct peace talks with Ukraine after three years of war

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Putin proposes direct peace talks with Ukraine after three years of war

MOSCOW, May 11 (Reuters) – Russian

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 on Sunday proposed direct talks with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul that he said should be aimed at achieving a durable peace and eliminating the root causes of the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a statement to the media at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia May 11, 2025.

Putin sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the 

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 between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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He said that Russia was proposing direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul in an attempt to “eliminate the root causes of the conflict” and “to achieve the restoration of a long-term, lasting peace.”

“It was not Russia that broke off negotiations in 2022. It was Kyiv. Nevertheless, we are proposing that Kyiv resume direct negotiations without any preconditions,” Putin said, referring to failed talks shortly after the Russian invasion of 2022.

“We offer the Kyiv authorities to resume negotiations already on Thursday, in Istanbul,” Putin said.

“Our proposal, as they say, is on the table, the decision is now up to the Ukrainian authorities and their curators, who are guided, it seems, by their personal political ambitions, and not by the interests of their peoples.”

Major 

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 threw their weight behind an unconditional 30-day Ukraine ceasefire on Saturday, with the backing of President

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, and threatened 

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 with “massive” new sanctions if he did not accept within days.

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Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly said he wants to end the “bloodbath” of the Ukraine war, which his administration casts as a proxy war between the United States and Russia.

Former President

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, Western European leaders and Ukraine cast the invasion as an imperial-style land grab and repeatedly vowed to defeat Russian forces.

Putin casts the war as a watershed moment in Moscow’s relations with the West, which he says humiliated Russia after the Soviet Union fell in 1991 by enlarging NATO and encroaching on what he considers Moscow’s sphere of influence, including Ukraine.

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