The U.S. special envoy Witko may have misunderstood Russia's position on a ceasefire in Ukraine after meeting with Russian President Putin this week. According to the German newspaper Bild, Russia has not abandoned its demand to fully control regions such as Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson before a ceasefire, but has only agreed to a "partial" ceasefire. However, in a peace proposal leaked to the media, Putin seemed willing to discuss a ceasefire, provided that Ukrainian forces withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk. Sources said this could be due to Witko misunderstanding what Putin meant by a "peaceful withdrawal" from Kherson and Zaporozhye: Russia requires Ukrainian forces to withdraw from these two areas, but Witko mistakenly believed that Russia would withdraw from there. "Witko doesn't know what he's talking about," the German media quoted an anonymous Ukrainian official.
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