MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Friday denied a Bloomberg report that Russian President Vladimir Putin had approached the United States for possible negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
The Bloomberg article indicates that Vladimir Putin was “testing the waters” to find out whether Washington was ready to engage in negotiations. The Russian president contacted the United States through indirect channels, adds Bloomberg.
The article cites two sources close to the Kremlin as saying that Vladimir Putin “may consider abandoning his demand to maintain a neutral status for Ukraine and even, ultimately, abandoning his opposition to Ukraine’s membership in NATO.”
The threat of Kyiv joining the transatlantic alliance was one of the main justifications for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Asked about Bloomberg’s information, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was “an erroneous article” that “absolutely does not correspond to reality.”
(Reuters reporting; French version Lina Golovnya, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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