(As I have said many times, Russia will settle for NATO remaining out of Ukraine and Donbass becomes part of Russia since they are why Putin got involved in this whole thing in the first place. And here we are. But Puppet Zelensky wont have it. Donbass left Ukraine on their own after our Nazi-backed coup in 2014 and have been bombed ever since by Kiev. Donbass will never go back to Ukraine just like Crimea wont. It is a good deal for Ukraine since they aren't really losing anything they hadn't already lost before Russia got involved. But it was always about baiting Russia into the conflict and so, they wont accept it.)
from AntiWar
Reuters reported on Thursday that Russia’s demands for a peace deal in Ukraine include Ukrainian forces withdrawing from the Donbas, a guarantee that Ukraine won’t join NATO, and for Ukraine to keep Western troops out of the country.
Russian sources told Reuters that Putin had compromised on his initial conditions, which included the Ukrainian withdrawal from the territory in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Under the current offer, Russia is willing to freeze the lines there and also return small amounts of territory it controls in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly rejected the idea of ceding the territory Ukrainian forces still control in the Donbas, and European leaders appear to be backing his position.
When it comes to NATO, the Reuters report said that Moscow is seeking a legally binding pledge from the alliance that it wouldn’t move further eastwards. A guarantee that Ukraine wouldn’t join NATO was one of Russia’s main demands to avoid the invasion, but the Biden administration refused to engage on the issue...
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