Putin leads the Americans by the nose - he does not need negotiations, and the meaning of his current conditions is actually the surrender of Ukraine and a redesign of the entire security system in Europe." BBC.
The Kremlin has again pulled out of the geopolitical archives its ultimate "draft agreements" with the US and NATO from December 2021 - the same demands, the refusal of which has become for Moscow a pretext for a full-scale invasion.
Russia is again demanding iron-clad guarantees for non-expansion of the alliance to the east (in particular, closing the door to Ukraine and Georgia) and the reduction of NATO's military infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe; although the West is unlikely to accept these demands, their very return to the current discussions regarding Ukraine is already seen in Moscow as their victory.