Russia is pushing back on a proposal that Ukrainians would put the key terms of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal to a popular vote, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying on Tuesday that a referendum would hamstring the negotiations. Peskov made the remarks to reporters on Tuesday when asked to comment on an idea put forward by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that any compromises in Russia-Ukraine talks should be put to a popular vote in Ukraine. “We’re convinced that putting [the terms] before the public at this moment can only undermine the negotiations that are already going a lot slower and are less substantial than we want them to be,” Peskov said, according to Russian state-backed media RT. Zelensky told Ukrainian news outlet Suspilne earlier in the day that Ukrainians must have the opportunity to decide on the terms of any deal agreed with Russia as some of the compromises that …
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