Putin Wants India, China, Brazil to Mediate to End Ukraine War

India, China and Brazil could act as mediators in potential peace talks over Ukraine, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that.

Speaking at a question and answer session at Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum in the city of Vladivostok, Putin said Russia was ready for talks but on the basis of an aborted deal between Moscow’s and Kyiv’s negotiators reached in Istanbul in 2022, the terms of which were never made public.

Russian President said he was ready for talks with Ukraine, asserting that India, China, and Brazil could act as mediators in potential peace dialogues, news agency Reuters reported.

Vladimir Putin said a preliminary agreement reached between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in the first weeks of the war at talks in Istanbul, which was never implemented, could serve as the basis for talks.