putin made the remarks in the presser shortly after securing another six-year term in office in the biggest landslight victory in post soviet russian history. well the warning came in response to earlier... statement by french president emmanuel macron who highlighted the necessity of western ground operations in ukraine at some point, commenting on the prospects of peace talks with kiev, putin said moscow remains open to negotiations, but won't be lured into a truice that would allow ukraine to rearm, he added that russian armed forces hold the initiative on the battlefield, as they have made advances in ukraine. fred weer, political commentator to in moscow believes that putin's repeated calls to discuss and end to the ukraine war should be taken seriously. it would be a massive escalation, um, nato troops in ukraine would start getting killed, and uh, that, i mean, we basically we would be on the threshold of world war ii, wouldn't we? um, so uh, i think that the the fact that it's being discussed in in europe, um, it's it's not a serious discussion yet, president macron brought it up uh