Russian officer says
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said that Russia would guarantee that NATO would exclude Ukraine from membership and Ukraine will remain neutral in any peace agreement.
Alexander Grushko told Russian Media Outlet Izwastia, “We will demand that the IronClad Security Guarantee becomes part of the agreement.”
“A part of these guarantee should be the neutral position of Ukraine, refusing to accept it in the alliance to refuse NATO countries,” he said.
It comes as US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin It is expected to speak in the coming daysAs is the negotiation on a possible ceasefire in a three -year war in Ukraine.
The US and Ukraine have agreed to propose a 30-day ceasefire to Russia.
While Putin said that he supported a ceasefire, he also set a list of difficult situations to achieve peace.
One of the areas of dispute is Russia’s Western Kursk region, where Ukraine began a military infiltration in the last August and captured some regions.
Putin has claimed that Russia is completely under the control of the chair, and the Ukrainian soldiers have been “isolated”.
He has also raised many questions about how a ceasefire can be monitored and polished with the front row in the east.
Meanwhile, Ukraine President Volodimier Zelansky has accused Putin Trying to “sabotage” diplomatic efforts To secure the immediate ceasefire.
US envoy Steve Witcoff, who met Putin in Moscow on Thursday, told CNN that he hoped “this week” would “a call” between Trump and Putin.
During his election campaign, Trump promised to end the war repeatedly, which began in 2022 with a full-scale invasion of Russia, on the “Day One” of a new administration.
After less than a month after the opening, Trump called with Putin It was allegedly 90 minutes to start a conversation immediately when the war ended.
Witcoff refused to answer a question as to how the Russian-quarry land in Ukraine could be addressed in a possible deal. Russia currently controls around the fifth of Ukraine.
