Russia will seek to guarantee that NATO will exclude Ukraine from members and that Ukraine will remain neutral in any peace agreement, said a Russian foreign minister.
“We demand that iron security guarantees are part of this agreement,” Alexander Grushko told Izvestia to the Russian media.
“Some of these guarantees should be the neutral status of Ukraine, the refusal of NATO countries to accept it in the alliance,” he said.
It comes as American president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin should speak in the coming daysWhile the talks continue on a possible ceasefire in the three-year war in Ukraine.
The United States and Ukraine have agreed to offer a 30-day ceasefire to Russia.
While Putin said he was supporting a ceasefire, he also established a list of difficult conditions to reach peace.
One of the areas of the bond is the region of western Russia, where Ukraine launched a military foray last August and captured a territory.
Putin said Russia was fully back in Kursk’s control and said Ukrainian troops were “isolated”.
He also raised many questions about how a cease-fire could be monitored and monitored along the front line in the east.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Putin of Try to “sabotage” diplomatic efforts To secure an immediate ceasefire.
The American envoy Steve Witkoff, who met Putin on Thursday in Moscow, told CNN that he expected that there was “a call” between Trump and Putin “this week”.
During his electoral campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to end the war, which began with the large -scale invasion of its neighbor’s Russia in 2022, the “first day” of a new administration.
Less than a month after its inauguration, Trump had called with Putin It would have lasted 90 minutes at the start of the negotiations immediately at the end of the war.
Witkoff refused to answer a question about how land occupied by Russia in Ukraine could be addressed in a potential agreement. Russia currently controls approximately a fifth of Ukraine.
