A peace deal to end the Russian war in Ukraine is "practically impossible," President Vladimir Putin said.

U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for a settlement to the Ukraine crisis, and has threatened Russia with new punitive sanctions and secondary tariffs if it does not make peace soon and end its full-scale invasion, which Moscow launched in February 2022.

Putin, speaking at an Eastern Economic Forum event, said he noted that Kyiv is seeking high-level direct contacts, including a meeting between himself and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky , but "I don't see much sense in it."

"Why? Because it will be practically impossible to reach an agreement with the Ukrainian side on key issues, even if there were political will—which I doubt," Putin said, originally in Russian,

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