Ukraine rejects Putin’s ceasefire proposal of ceding land on eve of peace summit

Ukraine rejected a Russian ceasefire proposal that would require Kyiv to hand over territory to Moscow and drop its NATO membership goal, blasting Russian President Vladimir Putin for trying to cast himself as a peacemaker. 

“It is absurd for Putin, who planned, prepared, and executed, together with his accomplices, the largest armed aggression in Europe since the Second World War, to present himself as a peacemaker and to put forward options for ending the war he started that undermine the foundations of the international legal order and the UN Charter,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in a statement.