Kremlin: No Peaceful Resolution in Ukraine Without Acknowledging 'New Realities'

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian service members fire a howitzer M119 at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut, Ukraine March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian service members fire a howitzer M119 at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut, Ukraine March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak/File Photo
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Kremlin: No Peaceful Resolution in Ukraine Without Acknowledging 'New Realities'

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian service members fire a howitzer M119 at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut, Ukraine March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian service members fire a howitzer M119 at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut, Ukraine March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak/File Photo

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that a peaceful resolution in Ukraine was not possible without taking into account the "new realities" of the situation.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia's position regarding an end to hostilities was "well known."

Moscow has repeatedly said that Ukraine would need to accept Russia's claimed annexation - rejected as illegal by Kyiv and the West - of four regions of Ukraine that it partly occupies.

Ukraine's future hinges on the outcome of battles in the east, including in and around Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, with both sides describing brutal fighting as Russia intensifies a winter campaign to capture the small city.



Putin, Netanyahu Discuss Syria and Iran in Phone Call, Kremlin Says

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Admiral Grigorovich frigate on Russia's Navy Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2025. (Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via Reuters)
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Admiral Grigorovich frigate on Russia's Navy Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2025. (Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via Reuters)
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Putin, Netanyahu Discuss Syria and Iran in Phone Call, Kremlin Says

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Admiral Grigorovich frigate on Russia's Navy Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2025. (Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via Reuters)
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Admiral Grigorovich frigate on Russia's Navy Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2025. (Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via Reuters)

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Syria and Iran in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the Kremlin said.

It said Putin stressed the importance of upholding Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity and restated Russia's readiness to help negotiate a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.