The Kremlin assures that Putin “is open to serious peace” and stresses that he will not accept “any tricks”

MADRID, December 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Kremlin assured Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “is open to serious peace” in Ukraine and warned that he was not willing to accept “any tricks” that “would generate a temporary respite” for Ukraine, in the midst of an invasion launched in February 2022.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the president “is open to peace, serious peace and serious decisions.” “He is not open to any tricks aimed at buying time and creating a temporary and artificial respite (for Ukraine),” he stressed.

Thus, he clarified that guarantees of Ukraine’s non-membership in NATO constitute a “key” issue in the current negotiations. “Of course, this question is essential and of course deserves a special debate in relation to other questions,” he explained.

“This is precisely the purpose of the negotiation process and I would like to emphasize that we do not want to conduct it in a megaphone format,” he said, referring to the fact of not having given details to the press on Moscow’s demands regarding guarantees so that kyiv does not join the Atlantic Alliance.

It is for this reason that he refused to say whether an agreement would be possible before Christmas, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. “I’m not going to speculate on the timelines. I think that would be the least appropriate at the moment,” he said during his daily press conference.

Peskov also indicated that for now “there are no discussions” with the United States on possible progress in contacts between Washington, kyiv and other European countries in Germany, although he stressed that Moscow “hopes” that the North American country “shares the vision of what is being discussed today in Berlin.”

Finally, he reaffirmed that Moscow recognized the “sincere” efforts of US President Donald Trump to reach an agreement. “He wants an agreement on the conflict and is making efforts. His whole team is making efforts. We attach great value to it,” added the Kremlin spokesperson.