Russia’s US envoy Anatoly Antonov said America is secretly giving Vladimir Putin the terms of negotiations to halt the fighting. “I would specify three of them. First, to stop military action as part of the special military operation. “Second, to move our troops back to where they were before 24 February. “The third is ‘to repent for everything we have done’.” Antonov told Russian State TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov: “Naturally we are saying firm and clear, and we are unambiguously sure of this – at least the Russian diplomats that work here there will be no such capitulation. Never.” (https://www.the-sun.com/news/5344405/russias-ambassador-kremlin-split-war/) In other statements, Antonov has echoed other figures in the Russian elite that the current east-west confrontation with then West arming Ukraine could trigger nuclear war,