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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said there is a chance to end the war in Ukraine via negotiations “if common sense prevails” — an option he said he preferred, but that he was ready to end it by force if that was the only way.
Speaking in Beijing at the end of a visit that resulted in an agreement on a new gas pipeline to China, Putin said he perceived “a certain light at the end of the tunnel”, given what he said were sincere efforts by the United States to find a settlement to Europe’s biggest land war since World War Two.
“It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable solution to end this conflict. That is my assumption,” Putin told reporters.
“Especially since we can see the mood of the current US administration under President [Donald] Trump, and we see not just their statements, but their sincere desire to find this solution … And I think there is a certain light at the end of the tunnel. Let’s see how the situation develops,” he said.

“If not, then we will have to address all the issues before us through military means.”

Putin did not, however, indicate any willingness to soften his long-standing demands that Ukraine abandon any ideas of joining the NATO military alliance, reverse what the Kremlin has described as discrimination against Russian speakers and ethnic Russians or step back from the idea that Russia must have full control of at least the Donbas area in eastern Ukraine.
He said, in his view, Ukraine needed to cancel martial law, hold elections, and hold a referendum on territorial questions if progress was to be made.
He said he was ready to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy if the Ukrainian president came to Moscow, but that it remained to be seen whether such a meeting was worthwhile. He reiterated the Kremlin’s oft-repeated stance that such a meeting had to be well prepared in advance and lead to tangible results.

The Ukrainian foreign minister called the idea of having Moscow as the location for such a meeting “unacceptable.”

Zelenskyy has been pressing to meet with Putin to discuss the terms of a potential deal, despite the two sides remaining far apart. He has urged the US to impose further sanctions on Russia if Putin does not agree.
Trump — who has been trying to broker a peace settlement — has also said he wants the two leaders to meet and has threatened, but not yet imposed, secondary sanctions on Russia.
Putin, whose economy is showing signs of strain after being hit with sweeping Western sanctions, said he would prefer to end the war diplomatically, “by peaceful means”, if possible.
Russia claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions — a claim Ukraine and most Western countries reject as an illegal land grab backed by a colonial-style war of conquest.

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