Putin raises hopes of peace? No he doesn't

Putin has mentioned peace before. This time he decided to offer his readiness to talk peace at a summit with African eaders in St Petersburg. But in reality it's the same old, same old. Peace on his terms which means Ukraine agreeing to give up the territory which Russian troops currently occupy. It's the old Catch 22 for Kyiv. It's an impossible solution for Kyiv because President Zelensky has made it cear on numerous occasions that he is not prepared to talk peace untll all Russian troops have left the country. So the word "peace" coming from Putin's lips should not be greeted with any degree of hope. He was just trying to prove to the African leaders that he was not the one dismissing peace as an option. I wonder if the African leaders were impressed. They had appealed to Putin to lift his ban on grain being exported from Ukraine through the Black Sea and that fell on deaf ears. So I doubt they came away from the summit believing Putin had made a step towards ending the war. Sadly, peace is still a long long way away.