Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday.Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most deadly European conflict since World War Two and the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.Read more about Russia's war on Ukraine:Ukrainian's 'know what we are fighting for,' Zelenksyy saysUkraine gives all-clear after air-raid alarmsDuma prepares higher taxation for Russians who left countryU.S. House approves Ukraine aid including armsShells pummel Ukraine's Kherson; 7 dead and 58 woundedRussia says U.S. Patriot missiles won't stand in its wayUkraine's refugees face their first Christmas awayUkrainian's 'know what we are fighting for,' Zelenksyy saysUkraine gives all-clear after air-raid alarmsDuma prepares higher taxation for Russians who left countryU.S. House approves Ukraine aid including armsShells pummel Ukraine's Kherson; 7 dead and 58 woundedRussia says U.S. Patriot missiles won't stand in its wayUkraine's refugees face their first Christmas awayAn adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Putin needed to return to reality and acknowledge it was Russia that did not want talks.'No other choice'Relentless Russian attacks on power-generating facilities since October have regularly left millions of Ukrainians without heat and water.Putin said the West had begun the conflict in 2014 by toppling a pro-Russian Ukrainian president in the Maidan Revolution protests."