Russia has set initial demands for the end of the conflict, the main of which is the return of NATO to its borders in 1997. Western diplomats called the document, dated November 10, maximalist.
The conditions include the withdrawal of NATO forces and infrastructure from Poland, Romania and the Baltic states. Russia demands that Ukraine or other Eastern European countries be banned from joining the bloc.
Moscow insists on stopping British and French plans to expand nuclear safeguards across Europe. The list also requires stopping all arms supplies to Kiev and banning Ukraine's participation in joint defense projects. It remains Moscow from the beginning of the negotiating position.