Ukraine ready for ceasefire with Russia on certain fronts: Bild
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President Vladimir Putin stated that “Russia is in favor of a complete and final end of the conflict" with no additional conditions enabling Ukraine to "recover losses, regroup, and rearm."
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky waits to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy at the Mariinsky Palace in Kiev, Ukraine on September 11, 2024. (AP)
Ukraine could be ready to cease hostilities with Russia in certain areas on the front, the German tabloid newspaper Bild reported, citing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's apparent revised strategy.
The key points of the plan include a “demand to be allowed to deploy Western long-range weapons deep inside Russia, as well as Ukraine’s readiness to accept local ceasefires along certain portions of the front, and thus a provisional freezing of the situation,” according to the German newspaper.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in July that Moscow is not interested in a “ceasefire or some kind of pause that the Kiev regime could use to recover losses, regroup, and rearm, asserting “Russia is in favor of a complete and final end of the conflict."
Putin proposed an immediate ceasefire in June, on the condition that Ukraine provide legally binding guarantees that it would not seek NATO membership, and withdraw its forces from all forces claimed by Russia. However, Kiev and its Western allies rejected this proposal.
Zelensky aims to present 'victory plan'
Bild reported on Saturday that Zelensky plans to visit the US later this month, presenting his revised strategy to President Joe Biden, as well as Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican counterpart and former president Donald Trump.
The Ukrainian leader disclosed last month his intentions to reveal his “victory plan” to Biden in September, suggesting the plan likely included asking the US for further financial and military aid, claiming that victory is dependent on Washington granting Kiev “what is in this plan.”
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified European diplomats, that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK British Foreign Minister David Lammy informed Ukrainian officials behind closed doors that a “full Ukrainian victory would require the West to provide hundreds of billions of dollars worth of support, something neither Washington nor Europe can realistically do.”
Kiev is allegedly being called on to “come up with a more realistic plan.”
