Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during a press conference following a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow on March 13. © Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle but that any truce would have to address the root causes of the conflict and that many crucial details needed to be sorted out.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble, and triggered the sharpest confrontation between Moscow and the West in decades.