U.S. rejects Putin’s peace offer as an insult to common sense

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's "peace offer" on Sunday. He emphasized that it is not only contrary to the United Nations Charter but also "is contrary to the foundations of morality" and "is contrary to basic common sense."

"He said that Ukraine should not only give up the territory that Russia is currently occupying, but Ukraine should leave additional sovereign Ukrainian territories," Sullivan reminded participants of the conference on Ukraine held in Buergenstock, Switzerland.

The U.S. representative pointed out that according to the Russian proposal, Kyiv would also have to disarm.

"No responsible country can say that this is a reasonable basis for peace. It is contrary to the UN Charter, it is contrary to the foundations of morality, it is contrary to basic common sense," he declared.

Putin declared on Friday at a meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leadership in Moscow that the Russian army would cease fire if Ukrainian forces withdrew from the territories annexed by Russia and Kyiv committed to not joining NATO.

According to him, Ukrainian forces should completely withdraw from the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, as well as the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. Russia announced it was annexing these regions after starting the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As a necessary condition, Putin presented Ukraine with the "neutral, non-bloc, non-nuclear status."