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President Vladimir Putin says Russia ready to negotiate over Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with leadership of military-industrial complex enterprises in Tula, Russia, Dec. 23, 2022. [Courtesy of Reuters]

Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired Sunday.

Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two and the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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