A media report suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin reached out to the US with an offer to freeze the Ukraine conflict is false, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.
On Tuesday, Reuters news agency claimed that Putin had contacted Washington through intermediaries to propose “a ceasefire in Ukraine to freeze the war.” However, according to “three Russian sources with knowledge of the discussions,” who the agency claims to have spoken with, the US rejected the idea.
When asked by journalists on Wednesday about the report, Peskov responded: “No, this is not true.”
In his interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson last week, Putin said Russia maintains contacts with the US “through various agencies.”
According to the Russian leader, Moscow has told Washington many times that “if you really want to stop [the] fighting, you need to stop supplying weapons” to Ukraine.