NO MORE NATO ENLARGEMENT?
Reuters reported this week that Putin’s circumstances for ending the conflict embrace a requirement that Western leaders pledge in writing to cease enlarging NATO eastwards.
Trump’s particular envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, stated on Friday that Russia’s concern over the eastward enlargement of NATO was truthful and Washington didn’t wish to see Ukraine within the US-led army alliance.
Commenting on Kellogg’s assertion, Peskov stated: “We’re happy that these explanations by the president are understood, together with in Washington.”
Turkish International Minister Hakan Fidan instructed reporters in Kyiv that the subsequent step after talks in Istanbul can be to attempt to host a gathering between Trump, Putin, and Zelenskyy.
Ukrainian International Minister Andrii Sybiha stated Kyiv wanted to see the Russian proposals prematurely for the talks to be “substantive and significant,” with out spelling out what Kyiv would do if it didn’t obtain the Russian doc or a deadline for receiving it.
“We wish to finish this conflict this yr, and we’re eager about establishing a truce, whether or not it’s for 30 days, or for 50 days, or for 100 days,” he stated.
Russia’s UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, instructed the UN Safety Council on Friday that Moscow was prepared to contemplate a ceasefire offered Western states stopped arming Ukraine and Kyiv stopped mobilising troops.
