Nuland confirms West told Zelensky to abandon peace deal | 9 Sept 2024 | The U.S., UK, and other backers of Ukraine told Kiev to reject the deal reached at the 2022 Istanbul peace talks with Russia, former US under secretary of state Victoria Nuland has said. In an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, former editor-in-chief of the liberal news channel Dozhd, which aired on Thursday, Nuland was asked to comment on reports that the peace process between Moscow and Kiev in late March and early April 2022 collapsed after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Ukraine and told Vladimir Zelensky to keep fighting. "Relatively late in the game the Ukrainians began asking for advice on where this thing was going and it became clear to us, clear to the Brits, clear to others that [President Vladimir] Putin's main condition was buried in an annex to this document that they were working on," she said of the deal being discussed by the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Türkiye's largest city.