Ukraine says it wants peace summit after Vladimir Putin suggests he’s open to talks, despite fresh shelling

UKRAINE wants to hold peace talks by the end of February, its foreign minister has said. 

The war-torn country will do whatever it can to beat Russia in 2021, Dmytro Kuleba said, adding that diplomacy has an important role. 

He suggested secretary-general Antonio Guterres could mediate a possible peace summit at the United Nation. 

But he insisted Russia should only be invited to join the talks if it first faces prosecution for war crimes in an international court. 

It comes after Vladimir Putin suggested he is open to talks, despite launching fresh shelling against Ukraine.

If the peace summit does take place in February, it would me a year after Russia first invaded.

Mr Kuleba said “every war ends in a diplomatic way”, adding: “Every war ends as a result of the actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.”

He also said: “The United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit because this is not about making a favour to a certain country.

“This is really about bringing everyone on board.”

Ukraine has been humiliating mad tyrant Putin in the war by wiping out much of Russia's war machine.

The Russian death toll has surpassed 100,000, it has lost previously-captured territory and equipment has been destroyed by precise strikes.

And experts fear the dictator could be prepared to send up to one million Russians to slaughter for the war effort.

It is a military failure of incredible scale, with poorly trained and poorly equipped soldiers being sent to their deaths in muddy trenches.

Putin's military death toll is already more than six times higher than the Soviets lost in Afghanistan, and 20 times higher than US casualties in Iraq.

Earlier this week mad Putin vowed to unleash his unstoppable hypersonic Satan-2 nuke missile within weeks.