Putin leads the Americans by the nose, he does not need negotiations, his conditions now are the surrender of Ukraine. BBC.
Moscow wants to change the security system in Europe in a way that will benefit Russia.
The Kremlin again brought up for discussion its controversial proposal from December 2021 - "draft agreements" with the US and NATO, which will not only slow down the alliance's eastward expansion, and give Moscow guarantees that, for example, Ukraine and Georgia will never be allowed to join it, but will also provide for the reduction of NATO's military infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe.
Western leaders then dismissed such demands as an unacceptable Russian ultimatum. Two months later, Moscow launched a full-scale war.
Draft contracts were set aside. Now they have been taken from the geopolitical archive, and the Kremlin is citing them again.
This, of course, does not mean that Western governments will accept them. However, the fact that the issue of European security now appears in the discussions regarding Ukraine is seen here as a victory for Moscow.
Ukraine online.