The Kremlin takes the view that NATO states may proceed to supply arms to Ukraine individually, but this equipment should not be utilized against Russia or to effort to regain lost territory, they state Bloomberg's sources. According to the agency’s callers Putin is convinced that he has an advantage on the battlefield, so he does not let go and follows the blow. This is only the beginning of extremist demands.
Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to request from Kiev radical limitation of military cooperation with NATO and permanent abandonment of NATO membership plans During the forthcoming talks on Ukraine with Donald Trump, he reports Bloomberg, citing sources close to the Kremlin.
Putin besides demands that Russia retains at least actual control over the 20 percent of Ukraine's territory, which the army took over during the three-year war. At the same time, Moscow is ready for a certain "change of territory", reported the sources of the agency, as hundreds of sq km of Kursk region, which Ukrainian troops attacked in August, stay under the control of Kiev.
The Kremlin's demands became sharper. A year ago, through non-public channels, Putin told the U.S. that he was willing to quit the request for neutral position of Ukraine and even let it to join NATO in the future, Bloomberg's sources claim. However, since then, the situation of Ukrainian armed forces on the front has deteriorated, Russian troops have begun to re-emerge in Donbasa, which added courage to Putin, the agency's interviewors claim.
According to Bloomberg Russia and Ukraine are presently having limited talks in Qatar to defend atomic power plants in both countries from attacks.
Putin himself has repeatedly said that he believes that talks about Ukraine are based on "the Istanbul Accords" — draft peace agreement drawn up in March 2022.When the Russian troops stood close Kiev, they surrounded the Kharkivs and held control of Cherson.
At the time, Russia demanded that the Ukrainian army be reduced to 85,000 people and no more than 342 tanks, and the scope of its missiles was limited to a radius of 40 km. Ukraine insisted on an army of 250,000 people with 800 tanks and missiles with a scope of 280 km.
US and Russia stay silent
Dialogue between the Kremlin and the fresh US administration "at squad level has already begun" in November-December 2024, and Putin's first direct contact with Donald Trump besides took place, said earlier The Moscow Times 2 Russian officials associated with the Kremlin's global policy.
According to them, The Kremlin and Trump's squad deliberately failed to make public information about the beginning of the dialog and denied it in all possible way after media reports came forward.to avoid force from the U.S. establishment on the future U.S. President.
After the inauguration, the fact of communication can already be made public without risk, and the strength of the dialog will "increase significantly", claims the origin of The Moscow Times in the Russian MFA.
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The Kremlin is presently looking for a candidate for the function of lead negotiator with the fresh US administration and it is likely that this function will be entrusted to individual close to Putin, possibly individual who worked with him in St. Petersburg, said the source.
