Posted on 05/28/2025 12:17:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two and has shown increasing frustration with Putin in recent days, warning on Tuesday the Russian leader was "playing with fire" by refusing to engage in ceasefire talks with Kyiv as his forces made gains on the battlefield.
After speaking to Trump for more than two hours last week, Putin said that he had agreed to work with Ukraine on a memorandum that would establish the contours of a peace accord, including the timing of a ceasefire. Russia says it is currently drafting its version of the memorandum and cannot estimate how long that will take.
Kyiv and European governments have accused Moscow of stalling while its troops advance in eastern Ukraine.
"Putin is ready to make peace but not at any price," said one senior Russian source with knowledge of top-level Kremlin thinking, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The three Russian sources said Putin wants a "written" pledge by major Western powers not to enlarge the U.S.-led NATO alliance eastwards - shorthand for formally ruling out membership to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova and other former Soviet republics.
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How much more eastward can NATO go? LOL. I wouldn’t be shocked if Belarus wants in…but that isn’t happening.
Sounds reasonable to me
Funny how Russia still thinks it is the USSR when it wants to violate the national sovereignty of others but claims not to be the USSR whenever people mention the crimes against humanity the USSR committed.
To me as well, the more countries that join means more we have to protect and get less in return.
Not really new
Also included Ukraine gives up the 4 regions of Donbas (biggy)
Limits the size of its military post war
Limit Ukrainian arms imports
And no peacekeepers from NATO countries
Source - every previous peace proposal
LOL. Putin is the best salesman NATO has ever had. Sweden and Finland would never have abandoned their historical neutrality had Putin not launched his genocidal war of choice on Ukrainians.
NATO can only cause us trouble.
It should be dissolved.
There is a thousand years of history behind the conflict, including the fact that Kyiv is the birthplace of Russia, but you insist that history begins on a day of your choosing because shut up.
Funny how Russia still thinks it is the USSR when it wants to violate the national sovereignty of others but claims not to be the USSR whenever people mention the crimes against humanity the USSR committed.
Even funnier how Kremlin Bolsheviks and their useful fools accuse their opponents of living in the Cold War when in reality it is they who never left it.
• Putin wants written pledge to halt NATO expansion eastwards, sources say
• Russia also seeks lifting of sanctions and protection for Russian speakers in Ukraine
• Ukraine has insisted on NATO membership aspirations despite Russian demands
• Putin demands the right to withdraw from any agreement he chooses, for any reason he chooses.
Reasonable terms, so the grifting Europeans will foil them. Then we should pull our troops from Europe.
Yes, Europeans and thier dumb wars.
Putin idolizes Joseph Stalin. This is how much of a genetic throwback Putin is.
If you’re a senior member of the Russian government then the odds would seem close to 100% that your phone lines are all tapped and ditto any internet connections.
So how would these 3 senior Russian sources be inside the govt, and if they are not inside the gov’t then they can’t be saying anything that is not already public.
This article’s writer had a deadline approaching so he contacted some outside Russia Russian sources and quoted them, regardless of what they know.
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