What’s that? Try again. Just a week before Johnson’s visits Putin had already said the peace talks were at a dead end, part of the reason being he said the Bucha massacre provocation being perpetrated and that it was fake news:
April 12th
President Vladimir Putin has said that peace talks with Ukraine are at a “dead end” as the Russian leader claims that Kyiv has deviated from agreements struck in Turkey.
“We acted to create conditions to continue talks,” he added. “Instead, we faced the provocation in Bucha and, what’s most important, the Ukrainian side deviated from the Istanbul agreements,” Putin said.
https://www.ft.com/content/8397113f-bc37-4376-9bde-339fded97569
“Issues of regulating relations on Crimea, Sevastopol and Donbas are taken outside of those agreements,” he said. “So we are back to the dead end situation.”
He said that claims people died at the hands of Russian soldiers were “fake news” from the US. Ukraine meanwhile has said Russia was responsible.