Russian strongman Vladimir Putin claimed during his traditional end-of-year press conference on Friday that Russia was “ready” for a peace agreement to end its invasion of Ukraine, but peace talks were impossible as “we truly do not see such readiness” from Kyiv.

The remark follows an intense month of attempted diplomacy by the White House, which unveiled a 28-point peace plan in the days leading up to Thanksgiving to end active hostilities in the invasion. After negotiations with the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, that plan was reportedly whittled down to 20 points, but talks between representatives of the…

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