Putin: The West asked for a ceasefire when Russia was in Kyiv

Putin: The West asked for a ceasefire when the Russian Armed Forces were near Kyiv

Vladimir Putin. Photo: Lyudmila Alexandrova

Russian President Vladimir Putin during speaking with journalists after the end of the SCO summit in Astana, he said that when the Russian Armed Forces were near Kiev in 2022, Moscow received an offer and even an insistent request from its Western partners to cease fire.

According to Putin, Russia was asked to cease fire military operations so that certain actions are taken on the Ukrainian side. “And we did it,” said the Russian leader.

“We were asked to withdraw troops from Kyiv in order to create conditions for the final conclusion of a peace agreement, we did it,” Putin continued, noting that when In this case, Russia again faced deception, since the agreements reached in Istanbul “were thrown into the trash.”