The exclusion of Ukraine NATO must be in the peace agreement

Russia will seek guarantees that NATO will exclude Ukraine from membership and that Ukraine will continue to be neutral in any peace agreement, said a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

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

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

It comes when the president of the United States, Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin They are expected to speak in the next few daysAs the conversations continue on a possible fire in the three -year war in Ukraine.

The United States and Ukraine have agreed to propose a high fire of 30 days to Russia.

While Putin said he supported the fire, he also established a list of difficult conditions to achieve peace.

One of the containment areas is the western region of Kursk in Russia, where Ukraine launched a military incursion last August and captured some territory.

Putin said Russia is completely back in Kursk’s control, and said that the Ukrainian troops “have been isolated.”

He has also raised numerous questions about how the fire could be monitored and monitored along the first line in the east.

Meanwhile, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused Putin of Trying to “sabotage” diplomatic efforts to ensure a high immediate fire.

The American envoy Steve Witkoff, who met with Putin on Thursday in Moscow, told CNN that he hoped that “there was a call” between Trump and Putin “this week.”

During his electoral campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to end the war, which began with the large -scale invasion of Russia of his neighbor in 2022, the “first day” of a new administration.

Less than a month after they inaugurated it, Trump had called with Putin According to the reports, that covered 90 minutes on starting the negotiations immediately to end the war.

Witkoff declined to answer a question about how the lands occupied by Russian in Ukraine could be addressed in a possible agreement. Russia currently controls around a fifth of Ukraine.