Threats, pressure and ultimatum Called and left, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained Moscow’s unrelated demands in the war in Ukraine, leaving that he could use a planned summit with US President Donald Trump in Alaska to accept Kiva a adverse deal.
Maximalist demands reflect Putin’s determination, when he launched, to reach the goals set by him Ukraine’s full -scale invasion On February 24, 2022.
Putin sees a possible meeting There is an opportunity to interact on a broad deal with Trump that will not only cement the regional advantage of Russia, but will also make Ukraine from joining NATO and hosting any Western soldiers, allowing Moscow to gradually pull the country back into its classroom.
The Kremlin leader believes that time is in his favor as tired and Ukrainian forces are excluded, which are struggling to stem Russian advances in many areas of the front line of 1,000 kilometers (more than 600 mi), while Russian missiles and drone batsman Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski has also been firm in his positions, agreeing to a ceasefire proposed by Trump, while confirming the country’s refusal to demand NATO membership and reject Russia’s acceptance of Russia’s Russia.
A look at the Russian and Ukrainian vision of a peace deal and how a Putin-Tram Shikhar can develop:
Russia’s status
In a memorandum presented at Istanbul in June, Russia offered two options to Ukraine to establish a 30-day ceasefire. One demanded Ukraine that Donnetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizahiya and Kharson withdrew their forces – Moscow in four areas was illegally attached illegally in September 2022, but never completely occupied.
As an alternative position for a ceasefire, Russia created a “package proposal” for Ukraine, which to prevent efforts to raise, to free the delivery of Western weapons and ban the forces of any third country on its soil. Moscow also suggested and selected Ukraine and Marshal Law, after which the country could sign a comprehensive peace treaty.
Once a truss becomes, Moscow wants a deal to include the “international legal recognition” of its attachment Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula Four areas in 2014 and 2022.
Russia states that in a peace treaty Ukraine should declare its neutral position between Russia and West, left its dialect to join NATO, limited the size of its armed forces and recognized Russian as an official language with the terms of Ukrainian reflecting the early goals of Putin.
It also demands a ban on “Nazism and the glory of Nazism and propagation” on Ukraine and dissolve nationalist groups. Since the war began, Putin has falsely alleged that the Nav-Nazi Group was shaping Ukrainian politics under Zelancesi, which is Jewish. He was rejected fiercely by Kyiv and her western colleagues.
In the view of Russia, a comprehensive peace treaty should see the two countries lifting all restrictions and restrictions, leaving any claim to resume compensation, trade and communication for the loss of war and to establish diplomatic relations.
Asked on Thursday whether Moscow indicated any desire to compromise with Trump to make a meeting possible, Putin’s foreign affairs advisor Yuri Usakov replied that there was no change in the Russian situation.
Ukraine status
Ukraine emphasized the need for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire to set a platform for peace talks in a memorandum presented to Moscow in Istanbul.
This confirmed the frequent rejection of Russian demands for the neutral position as an attack on Ukraine’s its sovereignty, declaration that it is free to choose its alliances and add it that its NATO membership would depend on the general consensus with the alliance.
This emphasized the rejection of any restriction on the size of the kiev and other parameters of its armed forces, as well as curb the presence of foreign soldiers on their soil.
Ukraine’s memorandum also opposed recognizing any Russian regional advantage, while the current line of contact described as a starting point in the conversation.
The document noted the need for international security guarantee to ensure the implementation of peace agreements and to prevent further aggression.
Kiev’s peace proposal also demanded the withdrawal of all exiled and illegally displaced children and total prisoner exchange.
If it follows the agreement, it was slowly open to lift some sanctions against Russia.
Trump’s post
Trump has often praised Putin and even talking about war. He was a harsh conflict with Zelanceci Oval office On 28 February, but later heated his tone. As Putin opposed a ceasefire and Continues its aerial bombingTrump performed brilliantly with the Kremlin leader, threatening Moscow with new sanctions.
Although Trump expressed disappointment with Putin, his agreement to meet him without Zelancesi on the table expressed concern among Ukraine and his European colleagues, who are afraid that it may allow Russian to bring Tram to the concessions and strong Ukraine.
Trump said that without giving details, “for the betterment of both Russia and Ukraine, as part of any peace deal,” will “there would be some swapping of the territories, which he will discuss with Putin when he meets on Friday.
Putin repeatedly warned that Ukraine would face difficult situations for peace if it does not accept Moscow’s demands because Russian soldiers have built in other areas, which they have described as “buffer zones”. Some observers suggested that Russia may still trade those recent benefits for areas of attachment four by Moscow under Ukrainian control.
Sam Green of King’s College London said, “This is potentially a situation that takes Putin in a tremendous amount, until he can use the benefit that can force Ukrainian to force him to force and to effectively side the Europeans,” said SAM GRIN of London, “Kings College London’s London. “The question is whether Trump will sign him and will he really take advantage of forcing Ukrainian and Europeans to accept it?”
Green said that Putin may accept a temporary Trus to win Trump’s sympathy as he wants to achieve broad goals.
He said, “He can accept a ceasefire as long as it is one who leaves him under control, in which there is no real preventive against fresh aggression under the line,” he said. “He understands that he has the only way to reach there through Trump.”
In a possible sign, they feel that a ceasefire or peace deal may be closed, Putin asked the leaders of China, India, South Africa and many pre-Soviet countries to inform these colleagues in a clear attempt to inform these colleagues about the possible agreements.
Carnegie Russia and Tatiana Stanovaya of Eurasia Center argued that Putin would not move on his goals.
“Although these conditions are given the word, they give the amount for the same demand: stop opposing Ukraine, prevents the supply of weapons, and Kiev accepts the terms of Russia, which is effectively the amount for a real captivation,” he posted on X. “The Russian side can frame a dozen different ways, it is open to the raid. Wants to surrender to the key.”
He predicted that Putin might agree to meet Zelancesi, but said that the Kremlin leaders would only accept such a meeting “if there is any predictable agenda and predetermined results, which are difficult to imagine.”
“The potential landscape is that this peace effort will fail once again,” he said. “This will be a negative consequence for Ukraine, but it will not distribute either Ukraine on a plate, at least the way he wants. The struggle, open war and duration of stress, seems likely to remain for the future, in turn, the future.”
The Associated Press
