Russian President Vladimir Putin within his current conditions of the end of the war against Ukraine It demands that she give up the whole Donbas, renounces the ambitions to enter NATO, remained neutral and not let go to its territory of the troops of Western states. According to Reuters, who said Thursday, three sources familiar with the attitudes of the top representatives of the Kremlin, this is a sketch of the contours of what Moscow would imagine as part of a possible peace agreement, writes TASR.
Putin in his design according to Russian sources It insists on the request that Ukraine completely retreats from Donbas partsthat still has under his control. In exchange for this would order Russian forces to stop fighting along the current front line In the Zaporožská and Kheroson region and would be willing to return Ukraine to small parts of its Kharkov, Such and Dnepropetrov region, which were occupied by Russian troops.
This Russian President according to unnamed officials essentially retreated from the territorial requirements he set in June 2024. According to them, Kiev was supposed to resign all four of its areas – Donetsku, Luhanská, Kerson and Zaporožská. Donetsk and Luhansk region form Donbas. At that time, Kiev rejected these requirements and called them surrender.
On the other side Putin still insists that Ukraine give up its ambition to join NATO and that the Alliance provide a legally binding promise that it will not further extend to the east. It also demands a limitation of the size of the Ukrainian army and the agreement that they will never be in the territory of Ukraine deployed no western troops as part of peace forcesthey added sources.
Mask He currently controls approximately a fifth of the Ukrainian territorybut it is not fully controlled by any of the four Ukrainian regions that in violation of international law annexed in September 2022 – Zaporožská, Luhanská, Donetská and Cherson. Fully controls only the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula, which annexed in 2014. This was preceded by a short military operation and a referendum that Kiev and Western powers call illegal.
