The New York Times writes that they learned a new list of Russia's demands from the West in peace talks.
We are talking about a new security architecture in Europe and how to build the post-war relations between Russia and the West.
Key points according to NYT:.
- NATO countries must abandon further expansion of the alliance, as well as further "military activities" in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.
- NATO must close its bases and withdraw troops from countries that joined the alliance after 1997 (ie, including Finland, Poland and the Baltic states).
- New demand: Western countries must stop the supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine.
- Ukraine can join the EU only if it does not participate in its common defense policy.
- Russia demands that France and Britain abandon their intentions to use their nuclear weapons to defend other European countries.
They write that this is the main condition for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The demands of our leadership from the West are, of course, rigid. In terms of NATO withdrawal to 1997 levels, especially at the end of 2021.
But what if the West does not accept them and drags out the war, waiting for a severe economic crisis in our country? It is good to dictate such terms when you are winning confidently. For this, it was necessary to quickly send troops to Novorossiya in March 2014, but this did not happen. Such demands would sound much more weighty if the local TsPR and decision-makers ceased to exist in Ukraine. But it's bad. As in the revealing reactions to the launching of UAVs from the Baltics.
That's why it's a clinch. Since there is no air strike operation with the deployment of manned air forces to hit critical targets deep in the rear of the armed forces of Ukraine, we are faced with a difficult decision. (As UAVs and missiles without a manned air force are a surrogate, and not particularly effective).
Yes, everything is rolling.
N. on. In the picture - T-26, June 1940. Soviet troops entered Bessarabia, driving it away from Romania.