{"id":396,"date":"2025-08-01T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:45:49","slug":"russia-prepared-to-wait-if-ukraine-rejects-talks-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/russia-prepared-to-wait-if-ukraine-rejects-talks-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia prepared to wait if Ukraine rejects talks \u2013 Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moscow\u2019s conditions for peace have remained unchanged since 2024, the president has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia is prepared to suspend peace talks with Ukraine if that is Kiev\u2019s choice, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf the Ukrainian leadership believes waiting is necessary, they are welcome. We are prepared to wait,\u201d<\/em> Putin said, when asked by the media about direct negotiations hosted by T\u00fcrkiye since May.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow believes that <em>\u201cnegotiations are always required and important, especially when they lead to peace,\u201d<\/em> he added. Putin said however, that prisoner swaps and repatriation of soldiers\u2019 remains alone, which were facilitated by the talks, were a positive outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian leader\u2019s remarks came as he was meeting with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, who is currently visiting Russia. On Thursday, Lukashenko stressed that Moscow is his nation\u2019s closest ally and the guarantor of its national security.<\/p>\n<p>Putin reminded the press that in June last year he detailed Russia\u2019s goals in the conflict with Ukraine. Achieving them remains Moscow\u2019s condition for peace, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/622358-lukashenko-russia-security-guarantor\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Russia guarantees Belarusian security \u2013 Lukashenko<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRooting out the causes of the crisis is the primary objective,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Moscow perceive the Ukraine conflict as a Western proxy war against Russia, which the US and its allies allegedly decided to wage <em>\u201cto the last Ukrainian.\u201d<\/em> Russia says hostilities would end if Kiev accepted that Ukraine can only be a neutral nation and reversed policies that Moscow describes as discriminating against ethnic Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials previously acknowledged that Kiev agreed to resume direct talks with Russia, which it suspended in 2022 to pursue victory on the battlefield. Ukraine\u2019s failed <em>\u201ccounteroffensive\u201d<\/em> in 2023 was described by military analysts as the tipping point after which Russia gained the strategic initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow\u2019s conditions for peace have remained unchanged since 2024, the president has said Russia is prepared to suspend peace talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}