Moscow rejected this, appearing to stick to its maximalist demands, including sweeping restrictions on Ukrainian sovereignty.

Generally speaking, the winner of a war will demand that their terms are met before agreeing to a truce. For the UK, a country that has taken part in its fair share of warfare, usually as the unprovoked aggressor, it's surprising that they don't seem to understand this.

And sovereignty for which Ukrainians? The current facist state, filled to the brim with neo-nazis? Or the the people of the Donbass who they stripped of their rights, banned their political parties, and began to ethnically cleanse of the region when they attempted to resist? Of course we know they are always speaking of the former. The Guardian, always the mouthpiece of the fascist UK state.