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Details of the #China Peace Plan and #Putin's Reaction

#Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday held a meeting via video call with several trusted people from the country's leadership. Putin holds meetings in this format and composition very rarely and only to...
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discuss issues that require immediate decisions and on which the fate of the country's leadership depends. Thus, yesterday they discussed a proposal from the #Chinese comrades that had arrived the day before. The gist of the proposal is as follows:
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#Russia withdraws its troops to the borders as of February 23, 2022. The "Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics" remain within the borders as of February 23, 2022, for a transitional period of up to five years, after which they return to...
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#Ukraine on terms of limited autonomy. The #Crimea issue is a topic for negotiations, which will start in five years. Until then, Crimea is effectively under Russian control. According to the #Chinese comrades, if the #Russian leadership is prepared to...
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end the conflict on such terms, this package would include the removal of most of the sanctions imposed after February 24, 2022. The #Chinese comrades practically explicitly promise in such a case to help restore and increase #Russia's military capacity within...
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two to three years and "create better conditions for further negotiations". The proposal was not presented to #Ukraine. The #Russian leadership has to make a decision first. However, the plan was ALLEGEDLY presented to a number of politicians from...
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#European countries actively supporting #Ukraine and was met with a cautiously positive response. If #Putin agrees, the #Chinese comrades are ready to start active negotiations to put these plans into practice, but they demand an immediate response from...
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the #Russian president. Participants in the meeting praised such "peace initiatives" and asked the president what he thought of them. #Putin irritatedly replied that he "does not have two or three fucking years" and just "gets fucked" with such proposals.
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Those taking part in the meeting tried to persuade the president to think about it and perhaps discuss better terms but without much success. The president said he was not yet ready for such solutions and, promising to think about it further, closed the meeting.
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