Putin offers truce if Ukraine exits Russian-claimed areas and drops NATO bid. Kyiv calls it 'absurd'
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to 'immediately' order a ceasefire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO.
:)) And yet, for such economy of words, they write profound and lengthy novels.
I took Russian at work for about a year; had to leave it just as we were being introduced to the perfective verbs. I admired the language, both how it sounded and looked. It seemed in keeping with their approach to engineering: spare, thoughtful, and concise.