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Earlier reports from the Wall Street Journal indicated that Trump’s team is considering a plan to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership by at least 20 years in exchange for continued Western arms supplies and the deployment of European peacekeepers to monitor a ceasefire.

Russia rebuffed incoming US President Donald Trump’s call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, while saying it’s ready to hold negotiations on a long-lasting peace agreement to end almost three years of war.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday rejected proposals floated by President-elect Trump’s allies to end the war in Ukraine, dealing a major setback for the incoming president’s hopes to freeze the conflict.

Trump has said he would end the war in Ukraine "within 24 hours" but Sergey Lavrov has poured cold water on plans to halt the fighting revealed in an interview.

Russia has firmly rejected a reported peace proposal from President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers that included delaying Ukraine’s NATO membership by two decades and deploying European peacekeepers to establish a demilitarized zone.

Russia is increasingly demonstrating its unwillingness to end the war. This is evidenced by the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, states the Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation,