As noted by ISW, Putin issued a series of demands to the US in December 2021 ahead of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, including that NATO commit to not accepting Ukraine or any other countries ...

MOSCOW – Russia welcomes US President Donald Trump’s view that drawing Ukraine towards the Nato military alliance was an issue of concern to Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Feb 5.

NATO might consider using Ukraine’s DELTA battlefield management system for joint operation planning, a NATO official said. NATO might use the system for operations of “different scales and complexity ...

Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine peace deal with Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join Nato. Washington Post journalist Bob ...

The U.S. should provide Ukraine with an alternative security guarantee, such as nuclear weapons, if it is not ready to accept the country into NATO, President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested in an ...

and a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO. According to Newsweek it would include a demand for Kyiv to accept Russian sovereignty on annexed land. Zelensky has denied the existence of such a plan.

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This could deter Russia from invading Ukraine again, if Ukraine's aim of attaining NATO membership when the war ends isn't achievable quickly. Speaking in an interview via an interpreter, Zelenskyy ...

He noted that security guarantees cannot be provided by NATO as an Alliance (except for membership), except for individual members. Furthermore, he asserted that the term "guarantees" is inappropriate ...

eastern Ukraine; The Kremlin called for "patience" over speculation around a possible meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump; NATO secretary general Mark Rutte said defence spending by ...

Earlier this week, Vladimir Zelensky said the West should give Ukraine nuclear weapons and deploy its troops on the country’s territory if it is not yet ready to grant NATO membership to Kiev ...