New information on the terms of the Russian president, Vladimir Putinto get an end to the war against Ukraine publishes today Reutersarguing that the Kremlin calls on both Western leaders to commit in writing to stop NATO expansion to the east and to lift part of the sanction against Russia.
“Putin is ready to make peace, but not at any price,” said a higher Russian source with knowledge of thoughts in the upper circles of the Kremlin.
According to the three Russian sources citing the ReutersPutin wants a “written” commitment from the great Western powers that they will not expand the US leadership of the US to the east – practically the official rejection of Ukraine’s accession, agriculture, Moldova and other former Soviet democracies.
Russia also wants the Ukraine To remain neutral, to lift part of Western sanctions, to resolve the issue of frozen Russian state assets in the West, and to protect Russian -speaking in Ukraine.
The first source said that if Putin realizes that he is unable to reach a peace agreement with his own terms, he would seek to show the Ukrainians and Europeans through military victories that “peace tomorrow will be even more painful”.
It is recalled that both Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly stated that any peace agreement must face the “main causes” of the war, showing to expand his NATO and support of the West to Ukraine.
For its part, Kiev has repeatedly stated that no veto on Ukraine’s ambitions should not be granted to Russia, while demanding strong security guarantees with real burden to prevent any future Russian attack.
One of the sources citing Reuters argued that if Putin sees a regular opportunity on the battlefield, he would further move to Ukraine and that the Kremlin believes that Russia can fight for years, regardless of the sanctions and financial difficulties imposed by the West. A second source said that Putin is now less willing to reconcile territories and remains stable in his public position that he wants the entire four regions of Eastern Ukraine claimed by Russia. Putin has hardened his attitude, “the source said.
According to the report, “Russia wants a written commitment from NATO because Putin believes that Moscow was misled by USA Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, when US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leader Michael Gorbachev in 1990 that NATO would not expand to the east. “