US Vice President Kamala Harris has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for peace negotiations with Ukraine as absurd. “We must speak truth. He is not calling for negotiations, he is calling for surrender,” Harris asserted at the Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland on Saturday. “America stands with Ukraine not out of charity, but because it is in our strategic interest,” she added. On Friday, immediately before the summit, Putin had demanded that Ukraine completely renounce the territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea a…