The exception of NATO Ukraine should be in a peaceful business

Russia will seek guarantees that NATO excludes Ukraine from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral in any peaceful transaction, said the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia.

“We will demand that Ironclad security guarantees become part of this agreement,” said Alexander Grushko to the Russian media Izvesti.

“Part of these guarantees should be a neutral status of Ukraine, the refusal of NATO countries to accept it in the alliance,” he said.

This happens when US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Expected to perform in the coming daysIf the negotiations continue on the possible ceasefire in the three -year war in Ukraine.

The US and Ukraine agreed to offer Russia a 30-day ceasefire.

While Putin said he supported the ceasefire, he also posted a list of hard conditions to achieve peace.

One of the regions of the dispute is the Russian western region of Kursk, where Ukraine launched a military invasion in August and seized some territory.

Putin claimed that Russia has completely returned to control over Kursk and stated that the Ukrainian troops there were “isolated”.

He also raised many questions about how to control the fire and conduct a front line in the East.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Olodimir Zelensky accused Putin of Trying “diplomatic effort” diplomatic efforts To secure an immediate ceasefire.

American Messenger Steve Witcooff, who met with Putin on Thursday in Moscow, said CNN that it expects that “this week” would be a call between Trump and Putin. “

During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to stop the war, which began with a full -scale invasion of Russia into a neighbor in 2022, in the “first” new administration.

Less than a month after the opening, Trump called Putin This was reportedly covered by 90 minutes about the immediate start of the negotiations to end the war.

Vitkoff refused to answer the question of how Russian land occupied in Ukraine could be resolved in a potential transaction. Currently, Russia controls a fifth of Ukraine.