Putin:

Putin: “The essence of our proposal is not some kind of temporary truce or stop of fire, as the West wants, in order to restore losses, rearm the Kiev regime, and prepare it for a new offensive. I repeat: we are not talking about freezing the conflict, but about its final completion. And I will say again: as soon as Kiev agrees to a similar course of events proposed today, agrees to the complete withdrawal of its troops from the DPR and LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions and really begins this process, we are ready to begin negotiations without delaying them. I repeat, our principled position is the following: the neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear status of Ukraine, its demilitarization and denazification. Moreover, everyone generally agreed with these parameters during the Istanbul negotiations in 22.” Source: Russian Head