Putin says Russia wants end to war in Ukraine

 Friday Dec 23 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits an exposition of projects ahead of a meeting of the State Council on youth policy in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2022. — Reuters  

Putin says will take a stab at a finish to war and the sooner the better.

White House representative says Putin isn't willing to arrange.

Russia says oil cost cap wouldn't harm economy.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia needs a finish to the conflict in Ukraine and that this would unavoidably include a strategic arrangement.

Putin offered the remarks a day after US President Joe Biden facilitated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House and guaranteed him proceeded and immovable US support.

"Our objective isn't to turn the flywheel of military clash, at the same time, running against the norm, to end this conflict," Putin said. "We will take a stab at a finish to this, and the sooner the better, obviously."

White House representative John Kirby said Putin has "shown totally zero sign that he will arrange" a finish to the conflict, which started when Moscow sent troops into Ukraine on Feb 24.

"A remarkable opposite," Kirby told journalists during a web based instructions. "All that he (Putin) is doing on the ground and in the air bespeaks a man who needs to keep on visiting savagery upon the Ukrainian public" and "raise the conflict."

Kirby emphasized that Biden was available to converses with Putin, yet solely after the Russian chief "showed an earnestness about dealings" and after meetings with Ukraine and US partners.

Russia has determinedly said it is available to discussions, however Ukraine and its partners suspect a ploy to delay after a progression of Russian losses and retreats that have swung the force of the 10-month battle for Kyiv.

"I have said commonly: the escalation of threats prompts ridiculous misfortunes," Putin told columnists.

"All equipped contentions end somehow for certain sort of talks on the discretionary track," he added. "Eventually, any gatherings in a condition of contention plunk down and settle on an understanding. The sooner this acknowledgment arrives at the individuals who go against us, the better. We have never abandoned this."

Russia says Ukraine is declining to talk. Kyiv says Russia should stop its assaults and surrender all domain it has seized.

Putin likewise made light of the meaning of the Loyalist air safeguard framework that Biden consented to supply to Zelenskiy, saying Russia would figure out how to counter it.

He said it was "very old" and didn't work like Russia's S-300 framework. "A remedy will constantly be found," he said, flaunting Russia would "break" the Loyalists.

"So the people who do it are doing it to no end. It's simply drawing out the contention, that's it in a nutshell."

Putin likewise said a cost cap forced on Russian oil by Western nations, intended to restrict its capacity to support the conflict, wouldn't harm the Russian economy. He said he would sign a pronouncement right on time one week from now to set out Russia's reaction.