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Russia lays out demands for talks with US on Ukraine, sources say
Russia has presented the U.S. with a list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter. It is not clear what exactly Moscow included on its list or whether it is willing to engage in peace talks with...
Russia has presented the U.S. with a list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter.
It is not clear what exactly Moscow included on its list or whether it is willing to engage in peace talks with Kyiv prior to their acceptance. Russian and American officials discussed the terms during in-person and virtual conversations over the last three weeks, the people said.
They described the Kremlin's terms as broad and similar to demands it previously has presented to Ukraine, the U.S. and NATO.
Those earlier terms included no NATO membership for Kyiv, an agreement not to deploy foreign troops in Ukraine and international recognition of President Vladimir Putin's claim that Crimea and four provinces belong to Russia.
Russia, in recent years, also has demanded the U.S. and NATO address what it has called the "root causes" of the war, including NATO's eastward expansion.
U.S. President Donald Trump is awaiting word from Putin on whether he will agree to a 30-day truce that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he would accept as a first step toward peace talks.
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In Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed this week's meeting in Saudi Arabia between U.S. and Ukrainian officials as constructive, and said a potential 30-day ceasefire with Russia could be used to draft a broader peace deal.
Moscow has raised many of these same demands over the last two decades, some making their way into formal negotiations with the U.S. and Europe.
āThereās no sign that the Russians are willing to make any concessions,ā said Angela Stent, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who was the top U.S. intelligence analyst for Russia and Eurasia. āThe demands havenāt changed at all. I think they are not really interested in peace or a meaningful ceasefire.ā
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The Russians also sought to bar military exercises by the U.S. or NATO from Eastern Europe to the Caucasus and Central Asia, the documents showed.
"These are the same Russian demands that have been made since 1945," said Kori Schake, a former Pentagon official who directs foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. "With the behavior of the Trump administration in recent weeks, Europeans arenāt just scared weāre abandoning them, theyāre afraid weāve joined the enemy."
Commentary:
Typical of the beginning gambit of any negotiations the opposing parties begin by asking for the most grandiose demands possible. So. Putin's opening is demand all and give up nothing. Some how that doesn't seem like the way to a lasting peace plan. And if Putin is demanding that no deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine. How can we be sure that Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine all over again.
I foresee, a few months of negotiating until this is completed. For one Putin has to be placed on his back foot. What is needed is that the Russia need to be whittled down an begin to lose ground.
I see a big error in Trump's denial of electronic/space intelligence gathering that gave Russian forces the edge to take more ground in the Kursk region.
See more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...re-kilometre-advance-kursk-region-2025-03-11/
Notably Gen. Keith Kellogg and Steve Witkoff are working in tandem to negotiate the end of this war...
Meanwhile, It's foolish to think Putin will simply stop fighting unless concession are on paper. He is winning so he does not have to stop so peace treaty NATO can decide what they want to do with a non NATO country.
