Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro in Moscow, Russia February 16, 2022. President Putin told Ukraine on Friday to sit down for negotiations with Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine’s east, citing rushing tensions in the region and calling for the implementation of the Minsk peace process.
At a news conference in Moscow, Putin also said Russia was ready to follow a negotiate track with NATO on its security demands, but that the U.S- led military alliance and Washington were not yet in a mood to engage on Moscow’s key concerns.
Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh, Mark Trevelyan, Daraya Korsunskaya; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Mark Heinrich.
