re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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I feel relatively confident Putin would have taken a deal where Russia gets to keep Donbas and Crimea and access to the Black Sea and NATO simply fricks off and doesn’t add Ukraine to NATO

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This was offered and Putin vetoed it

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Russian President Vladimir Putin had rejected a potential deal with Ukraine offered by his key envoy in the early days of the invasion as he “expanded” his goals to include annexing more territory, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing three unnamed sources close to Russia's leadership.

Kremlin deputy chief of staff Dmitry Kozak, Putin’s chief envoy on Ukraine, was said to have secured a deal guaranteeing that Ukraine would not join NATO — a key Russian demand prior to its full-scale invasion of its pro-Western neighbor.

According to Reuters, Putin made clear that Kozak’s deal with an unspecified number of Ukrainian concessions did not go far enough.

Putin reportedly “expanded his objectives to include annexing swathes of Ukrainian territory,” Reuters reported.

“Everything was canceled. Putin simply changed the plan as he went along,” one of Reuters’ sources was quoted as saying.

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So again, please cite anything that shows Russia was willing to accept anything other than a complete Ukraine surrender