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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Kremlin: Russia Open to Ukraine Talks, but Won’t Give Up Annexed Regions

A woman walks by a building destroyed by a Russian strike in Kupiansk, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. (AP)

The Kremlin on Tuesday repeated its position that Russia was open to negotiations to end the Ukraine conflict, but that new "territorial realities" could not be ignored.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Russia would never renounce its claims to four Ukrainian regions that Moscow declared it had annexed last year following referendums that Kyiv and the West slammed as bogus and illegal.

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