Did President Biden Offer 20% Of Ukraine To Putin To End The War?

U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque 

Newsweek: Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report 

The White House and the CIA have responded to a report that CIA Director, William Burns, offered Russian President Vladimir Putin a fifth of Ukraine's territory to end the ongoing war as part of a peace plan drawn up on behalf of President Joe Biden. 

A CIA official told Newsweek that claims in the report from Swiss-German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) that Burns took a secret trip to Moscow in January and that there was a peace proposal put forward by the director on behalf of the White House were "completely false." 

Last month, Burns traveled in secret to meet and brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, The Washington Post reported. 

Burns is said to have submitted the plan in mid-January to put an end to the war, which began on February 24, 2022. The story was reported by NZZ on Thursday, citing high-ranking German foreign politicians. 

Both Kyiv and Moscow reportedly rejected the proposal.  

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WNU Editor: The U.S. is denying this report .... White House Denies Joe Biden Offered to Give Ukrainian Territory to Putin (Newsweek). More here .... White House denies Biden offered Putin ‘20% of Ukraine’ (RT). 

As to what is my take. I have doubts that such an offer was made. Both sides do not trust the other, and from what I understand, there is now a complete breakdown in diplomacy between the US and Russia. This is a war that is going to be decided on the battlefield.