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hippyjoe1955 I don't watch TV as I don't have one, but do listen to the radio - I know you want to denigrate the BBC because it broadcasts news and views from both sides of conflicts not just the ones you support.
After all, it still has a correspondent in Russia as well as Ukraine, and trusted contacts in Palestine as well as Israel. (Israel does it best to keep foreign journalists out of Palestine - perhaps frightened they might find things the IDF don't want publicised.)
It even has trusted American journalists alongside its own, British, ones in that most dificult and divided of all nations not actually at war on its own land: the USA!
Most likely I had simply forgotten any part Mr. Johnson may or may not have played, but he did not start the war there. President Putin did that, remember.
Nevertheless any "peace treaty" between Ukraine and Russia would only ever be in Russia;s favour. Putin has never made that a secret. There was no need for anyone to make a "peace treaty" until war had started - which was the day Putin ordered his army to invade Ukraine after lying through his teeth even to his troops.
Putin wants Ukraine, and any "treaty" he would recognise is only one that gives as much as possible of it to him. He had already stolen the Crimean peninusula (in 2014) with little opposition then linked that directly to Russian territory by having road and rail bridges bulit across the Kersch Strait.
Would he stop there? No-one thinks he will although he has been careful not to reveal any further ambitions he might have.
Previously he had crushed attempts at independence by Georgai and Chechnya, and he continues to crush all opposition to him by his own subjects.
