Kremlin: "reports of a secret peace agreement with Ukraine as false"

Baghdad-INA 

The Russian government denied, today, Friday, reports that CIA Director William Burns offered Moscow a secret peace agreement that includes the ceding of Ukrainian lands to Russia .
The Kremlin described "reports of a secret peace agreement with Ukraine as false".

Yesterday, Thursday, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung reported that CIA chief William Burns had offered Kyiv to transfer about 20 percent of Ukraine's territory to the Russian side in exchange for a peace agreement.

The director of the CIA had said earlier, “Washington does not see a serious position on the negotiations on the part of Moscow.” And
US President Joe Biden, in mid-January, instructed the CIA director to deal with Moscow and Kiev with this proposal, while both refused.

According to a Russian news agency and after
the failure of Burns, Biden decided to supply Ukraine with Abrams tanks, while the American Newsweek magazine said that the deputy spokesman for the National Security Council in the White House, Sean Davitt, said that what was published by the Swiss newspaper is incorrect.

This comes a day after the Kremlin warned of a bigger response that Russia might take in response to the West sending more weapons to Ukraine.

The Kremlin spokesman said, "Russia will use its ability to respond more, in light of the West's intensification of sending weapons to Ukraine.".

In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin considered that "his country is threatened" by German tanks, referring to the Leopard-2 armored vehicles that Berlin pledged to supply to Kyiv to counter the Russian invasion, stressing that "Moscow is able to respond to countries that threaten it."