These are Putin’s requirements for peace: Reuters – BBC News in Serbian
The war of Russia and Ukraine who entered the fourth year, taking tens of thousands of life and destroying hundreds of cities and villages, and efforts to reach a bar truce so far they have not borne fruit.
While Western Allies, primarily the European Union, introduces packages sanctions to Russia in order to weaken, America took a leading intermediary role in recent weeks – also without major successes.
U.S. President Donald Trump constantly speaks that he wants to end the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, and the past days shows the growing frustration due to Putin.
He is 24. Maja warned that the Russian leader is « playing fire » because he rejects the truce negotiations with Kiev until his strengths achieve success at the front.
« It’s completely crazy », Tramp said After one of the largest Russian shocks on Ukraine since the beginning of the war February 2022.
Although negotiations on the truce and end of war are not in sight, the signal was sent from Moscow to be such a thing soon – but according to the conditions set by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
One of his main requests for the end of the war in Ukraine is that Western leaders are written to make up stop NATO expansion to the East, Browse ReutersReferring to Russian sources.
« There are now a lot of speculation, and often a large part of these speculation is incorrect, or false, or pure lie, » Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, the information reported by British Reuters agency.
After talking to the tramp for more of two hours last week, Putin said he agreed to cooperates with Ukraine on the Memorandum which should determine the principles of the peace agreement, among other things, a time frame for ceasefire.
Russia claims that it currently drafted its own version of the Memorandum and cannot judge how long it will last.
Kiev and European governments accuse Moscow to ‘tweak’ as her soldiers are throwing in the east of Ukraine.
« Putin is ready to make peace, but not at all costs, » said Russian source sent to thinking of the highest school officials, who agreed to speak under the condition of remaining unnamed.
The Russia launched mass shocks on Ukraine during the weekend.
The time and place of the second round of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, which began in Istanbul 16. May have not yet been established.
The only deal from Istanbul was the great exchange of prisoners and civilians.
What does Putin seek?
Three Russian sources said Putin was looking for a written promise of greater Western powers that NATO alliance, led by the United States, will not expire, which would be excluding membership for Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and other former Soviet Union.
These are, allegedly, Putin’s demands:
- Written promise that NATO will not expand to the east
- Ukraine as a neutral state
- Abolition of some Western sanctions
- Resolving the question of frozen Russian property
- Protection for « Russian speakers in Ukraine »
The first source said that if Putin realized that he could not achieve peace agreement under his conditions, he would seek to show Ukrainians and their allies that « tomorrow peace will be even more painful ».
Putin and other Russian officials said in several occasions that any peace agreement must deal with the « basic causes of conflict, which for Russia primarily means the issue of NATO enlargement.
Kiev says that Russia should not get the right to veto as far as Ukrainian aspirations in NATO, claim that strong security guarantees are needed to distract any Russian attack in the future.
The cabinet of Ukrainian President Vladimira Zelenic did not respond to the request for comment on this information of Reuters.
NATO officials prevly said that they would not change their « open door » policy only because Moscow was looking for.
The Alliance’s spokesman who has 32 art did not answer Rojters’ questions.
At the end of February 2022, after eight years of fighting in East Ukraine between separatists supported by Russia and Ukrainian troops, Putin ordered the army invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is currently controlling a little less than one-fifth of the country.
Although Russian progress has been speeding over the past year, the war costs both Russia and Ukraine in terms of victims and military costs.
Roiters reported in January that concerns grow in Russia for economic distortions in the Russian war economy, due to lack of labor and high interest rates imposed in order to curb inflation.
The price of oil, which is the foundation of the Russian economy, this year is in constant decline.