Cossack reached a peace agreement with Kiev at the beginning of the invasion, but Putin rejected it - Reuters
It envisaged Ukraine's refusal to join NATO, but Vladimir Putin rejected her and insisted on the continuation of hostilities. About it reports the British edition of Reuters with reference to 3 people from the environment of the Russian leader. According to journalists, the Cossack reported Putin that preliminary agreements with Ukraine would deprive Russia of the need to continue the full -scale war and occupation of our country.
However, the Russian President clearly made it clear that the concessions to which Kiev was ready to go are insufficient. He expanded the goals of his "special operation", including annexation of the territories of Ukraine. As a result, the agreement with the Ukrainian authorities was thwarted. "After February 24, the Cossack was given a maid blanche: they were given good, he received an agreement. He brought it back and they told him to get out. Everything was canceled.
Putin simply changed the plan in the case," one of the sources said. However, another informant told reporters that the Cossack offered Putin a previous treaty and received a refusal shortly before Russia's invasion. Advisor to the Presidential Office and one of the representatives of Ukraine in negotiations with Russia, Mikhail Podolyak, stated that Moscow had used a dialogue to terminate the war as a smoke curtain to continue the invasion.
The politician did not respond to the journalists about the content of the conversation with the Kremlin representatives and did not confirm that the preliminary agreement had been reached. He added that today in Ukraine clearly understand that the Russian Federation was not interested in negotiations. In a comment to journalists, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that this information was not true. "It has never been such. It is absolutely wrong information," he added.
We will remind, on August 24 the media reported that on the first day of a full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine Dmitry Kozak called the VP with a proposal to give up. According to journalists, Andrey Yermak lifted the phone and rolled him back. On September 13, Olga Stefanyshyn said that the counter -offensive of the Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region forced the Kremlin to offer to restore negotiations, but Kyiv refused.