Putin refused to sign the peace agreement that Kozak put on his table days after the invasion of Ukraine - Reuters

This is reported by Reuters.

According to the agency, shortly after the start of a large-scale war, advisers recommended to Putin to make peace on terms favorable to him, but the Russian president decided to continue hostilities.

Reuters sources claim that one of these advisers was the deputy head of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation Dmytro Kozak, who until February 24 was the curator of the occupied Donbass.

He convinced Putin that a peace agreement would spare Russia the need to continue the war, while Ukraine agreed to renounce NATO membership and become a neutral state.

However, Putin insisted on greater concessions from Ukraine and sought the annexation of new territories.  All this led to the fact that the Russian dictator rejected the idea of ​​signing a peace agreement.

"After February 24, Kozak was given carte blanche, he was given the go-ahead and he got the deal. He brought it, but they told him to go away. Everything was canceled. Putin was simply changing the plan as the case progressed," said a source of the agency close to the leadership of the Russian Federation.

The Kremlin said that the Reuters information is not true. Dmytro Kozak refused to comment.