Russian President Vladimir Putin has laid out a number of demands that he would require to stop his country’s war against Ukraine.
Most of these demands are non-starters for Ukraine, analysts say.
Russia has demanded a full Ukrainian withdrawal from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, de jure recognition of the occupied territories as Russian, a special status for the Russian-backed church and the Russian language in Ukraine, Kyiv’s demilitarization, and a ban on Kyiv’s NATO membership.
In exchange,
Killing has to stop and terms must prevent it happening again, that’s the main thing.
That’s also the main thing Ukraine wants and unfortunately the latter seems what Putin doesn’t want the most.