OREANDA-NEWS  Russia has not received any signals regarding Kiev's readiness for a ceasefire, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"No, I haven't received it," Peskov told reporters, answering a question from RIA Novosti about whether Moscow had received signals about Kiev's alleged readiness for a ceasefire along the established front line in exchange for a number of security guarantees from the West.

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." To do this, he said, it is planned to carry out the "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" of Donbass.

In September 2024, Putin said that if Ukraine had a desire to negotiate, Russia did not refuse them, but such negotiations would be held on the basis of the agreements fixed in Istanbul.

After the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region, Putin also called it impossible to negotiate with those who "indiscriminately strike at civilians, civilian infrastructure or try to create threats to nuclear energy facilities." Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov later said that Moscow's peace proposals for a Ukrainian settlement, announced earlier by the head of the Russian state, have not been canceled, but at this stage, "taking into account this adventure," Russia will not talk with Ukraine.