NATO’s exclusion of Ukraine must be in a peaceful deal

Russia will seek guarantees that NATO will exclude Ukraine from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral in any peaceful deal, said a Russian deputy foreign minister.

“We will ask for Ironclad security guarantees to become part of this agreement,” Alexander Grushko told Russian media Itvetia.

“Some of these guarantees must be the neutral status of Ukraine, the refusal of NATO countries to accept it in the Union,” he said.

He comes when US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to talk in the coming daysAs the conversations continue for the eventual end of fire in the three -year war in Ukraine.

The United States and Ukraine have agreed to offer a 30-day cessation of Russia’s fire.

While Putin said he had supported the truce, he also sets out a list of difficult conditions for peace.

One of the controversial areas is the Western Kursk region in Russia, where Ukraine launched a military invasion last August and took over some territory.

Putin claims that Russia is completely back into the control of Kursk and said that Ukrainian troops were “being isolated” there.

He has also raised numerous questions about how it can be observed and is a police fire on the front line to the east.

In the meantime Trying to “sabotage” diplomatic efforts To ensure an immediate termination of the fire.

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During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to end the war, which began with the full -scale invasion of Russia in his neighbor in 2022 at the Day First of a New Administration.

Less than a month after it was discovered, Trump called Putin This reports that it has covered 90 minutes that negotiations to terminate the war immediately begin.

Vitkoff refused to answer a question about how the land occupied by Russia in Ukraine can be addressed in a potential deal. Currently, Russia controls about one fifth from Ukraine.