# Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he thought the Ukraine war was coming to an end. His remarks came just hours after he had vowed victory in Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years. He also said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Putin faces a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, left swathes of Ukraine in ruins, and drained Russia’s economy.
Putin says he thinks Russia-Ukraine war is coming to an end