According to the German newspaper BILD, Russia has presented an unofficial proposal outlining a "new European security order" as part of a potential settlement to end the war in Ukraine.
Reported conditions include:
Donbass: Russia will gain full control of Donetsk and Luhansk, including areas still under Ukrainian control, while retaining the rest of its occupied Ukrainian territories.
Southern Ukraine: Odessa and Mykolaiv ports will be decommissioned and prohibited from being used as naval bases.
Maritime access: New freedom of navigation arrangements will be established in the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Baltic States: No NATO military bases will be allowed in Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania, despite their continued membership in the alliance.
Finland: Helsinki will withdraw from NATO and return to its pre-2023 status.
Ukraine: Kyiv will remain permanently unrecognized and abandon its NATO membership aspirations, although joining the European Union will not be ruled out.
Moldova: The country will be federal, and will include Gagauzia and Transnistria, with both regions being given the right to hold secession referendums if Moldova continues to be a member of the European Union or tightens ties with Romania. Russia, in turn, will withdraw its troops from Transnistria.
In return, Russia will remove its nuclear weapons from Belarus and refrain from stationing intermediate-range missiles there.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied that Moscow had demanded Finland's withdrawal from NATO, stating that the issue had not been discussed.
Officials in Finland, including Defense Minister Antti Hakanen, dismissed the reported offer as "absolutely outrageous" and non-negotiable.