Russia demands “strict guarantees” in any peace treaty with Ukraine … What are the most prominent conditions?

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister announced, in statements published today, Monday, that Russia will seek “strict” guarantees in any peace agreement on Ukraine to exclude NAIF countries Kiev from membership, and that Ukraine remain neutral.

US President Donald Trump is trying to obtain support for President Vladimir Putin for a 30 -day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week, and Putin says he needs to meet decisive conditions to be acceptable.

American envoy Steve Whitchv told CNN yesterday, Sunday, after returning from a meeting he described as “positive” with Putin in Moscow, that it is expected that Trump is expected to speak with his Russian counterpart this week about ways to end the three -year war in Ukraine.

In a large -scale interview with the Russian newspaper “Ezvsitia”, which was not referred to the ceasefire proposal, Alexander Grushko, Deputy Foreign Minister, said that any long -term peace treaty on Ukraine should fulfill the demands of Moscow.

“We will demand strict security guarantees part of this agreement,” the newspaper quoted Grushko as saying.

He added: “Among these guarantees is the neutral situation of Ukraine, and NATO countries refused to accept it in the bloc.”

Moscow confirmed its conclusive opposition to the deployment of monitors from NATO in Ukraine, and Grushko again stressed the Kremlin’s position in this regard.

Britain and France expressed their willingness to send a peacekeeping force to monitor any ceasefire in Ukraine, while Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi stated that his country was also open to any requests.

Grushko said: “It does not matter under any designation that NATO forces are deployed on Ukrainian lands, whether they are affiliated with the European Union, NATO, or national.”

He continued, saying: “If they appear there, this means that they are spread in a conflict area with all the consequences that will entail these forces as parties in the conflict.”

Grushko said that it is not possible to discuss the publication of unarmed observers to monitor after the end of the conflict until after a peace agreement was reached.

In turn, French President Emmanuel Macron said, in statements published on Sunday, that the deployment of peacekeepers in Ukraine is a matter that Kiev was decided, not Moscow.

Grushko pointed out that the European allies so that they should understand that the exclusion of Ukraine’s membership in NATO and the exclusion of the possibility of deploying foreign military forces on its lands is only what will be in the interest of the region.

He added: “Then the security of Ukraine and the entire region will be guaranteed in the broader sense, as one of the radical reasons for the conflict will be eliminated.”