What are Putin’s demands for ceasefire? Russia sends list to Donald Trump for Ukraine truce

What are Russia’s ceasefire demands?

Russia is said to have raised demands that are similar to the previous conditions it presented to the NATO as well as the Ukrainians and the Americans.

These include not letting Ukraine join the NATO, one of the main reasons for Russia’s invasion of its neigbour. Moscow sees Kyiv as part of the Russosphere, which mainly comprises the former Soviet Union states that come under its sphere of influence. The expansion of NATO into these countries is seen as a threat by Russia. Some of the former Soviet Union states like Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are already NATO members.

Another Russian demand is that there should be no deployment of foreign military in Ukraine after the war.

Putin has also been demanding international recognition for Crimea and the territories it annexed in the Donbas region as part of Russia, including the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces.

This comes two days after Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his willingness to negotiate a 30-day ceasefire deal.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Putin has put forth three demands, asking Kyiv to formally commit to neutrality, abandon NATO aspirations and recognise Russia’s claims over annexed territories. It added that Moscow does not was peacekeepers send by the European Union on Ukrainian territories.

Before the Ukraine conflict that began in February 2022, Putin had demanded the NATO to stop its military operations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The Joe Biden administration had rejected most of his demands, documents accessed by Reuters have revealed.