Documents: Putin Was Willing To Compromise To End War In 2022

In April 2022, Ukraine and Russia were on the brink of signing a deal to end the war just weeks after it began.

The New York Times published documents showing President Vladimir Putin was willing to make concessions to get an agreement signed.

In December, Ukrainian negotiator Oleksandr Chalyi explained that an agreement was reached in the spring of 2022, stating the two sides "Managed to find a very real compromise. We were very close in the middle of April, in the end of April, to finalize our war with some peaceful settlement."

The draft deal would have allowed Kiev to sign bilateral agreements with NATO states, as well as become a member of the European Union, but would have required Ukraine's security partners to lift sanctions on Russia.

During a meeting in late March 2022, Poland's President Andrzej Duda pressured other NATO leaders not to allow Ukraine to sign the Russian proposal.

On Friday, the Russian president extended a public peace offer to Ukraine that is similar to the one nearly agreed to in 2022.

Along with Kiev agreeing never to join NATO and the West lifting sanctions on Russia, the Kremlin is now demanding that Ukraine recognize Moscow's sovereignty over Crimea and four other Ukrainian oblasts that have been annexed by Russia throughout the two-and-a-half-year-long war. 

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