Yes we are...but you're really keen to keep dodging the crucial question (third time now ? LOL) over the impossible to give at the time security guarantees from the US, UK, France and China aren't you....one of Putin's conditions.
Unless and until you address that question you're wasting your time.
In his TV interview, Arakhamia, who led the Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks with Russia in Belarus and Turkey in 2022, revealed that in the spring of 2022, Russia proposed a deal under which it would end its war against Ukraine if Ukraine dropped its plans to join NATO and declared neutrality:
“They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to – as Finland once did – neutrality, and committed that we would not join NATO,” Arakhamia said in the interview.
However, he noted that Ukraine’s NATO aspirations are written in its Constitution, which would have to be amended if its NATO bid were abandoned. He also said that Ukraine did not trust Russia to stick to such an agreement:
“There is no, and there was no, trust in the Russians that they would do it. This could only be done if there were security guarantees.”
Arakhamia did say that Johnson, during his trip to Kyiv in early April 2022, told Ukraine’s leadership it should “not sign anything with them at all, and let's just fight."
However, he indicated that Johnson’s advice was just that, not an order, and that Ukraine’s negotiations with Russia were “not managed in any way” by the U.S. or other Western governments:
“We consulted, of course - we understood that we cannot win the war by ourselves, so we definitely need to consult with them on this issue. And they actually advised us not to go for any ephemeral security guarantees, which at that time were impossible to give.
https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-moscow-twists-zelenskyy-ally-s-words-about-2022-russian-peace-deal-offer/7380585.html
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