The talks about peace are ongoing, but so far Russia has not yet opened to make any compromises on Ukraine. President Putin, who during the war several times said that all goals should be achieved, on the contrary said recently that Russia will not retire from the areas they have taken.
The Russians should, during their increasingly intensive contacts with the United States, have made a list of tough demands, points that are largely at the heart of the expressed Russian goals with the war.
According to Kyiv Post’s sources, the list must have been met of interest in Washington DC, where according to these, they must have opened in order to possibly agree to the requirements. Through these, a red thread goes – the Russian narrative that the country liberates areas in Ukraine from an alleged oppression from Kiev and that Ukraine is used by the West as a weapon against Russia.
Russia wants the West to completely end by providing Ukraine with weapons and intelligence, and that they cease the training of Ukrainian soldiers.Russia wants five of Ukraine’s regions – Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Chenler and Zaporizjzja. Of these, the Russians, who have entered their constitution, check that the regions belong to Russia, only Luhansk and Crimea as a whole.Russia wants the Russian language, Russian culture, Russian media and the Russian church to gain a prominent position in Ukrainian society. Ukraine, during the war, in response to the Russian aggression since 2014, has worked to limit the influence of the Russian state through private or religious organizations.Russia wants to assume in a future peace agreement what was said during the collapsed negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul 2022. It suggested that Ukraine give up all plans to join NATO and that the country becomes a neutral state. The Russians then also suggested that Ukraine would sharply cut down on their military and that a limit to how many soldiers the country may have to be introduced.The US Department of Foreign Affairs writes to the newspaper that they neither confirm nor dismiss the information.
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