“Rhetoric about the so -called “The root causes of war”. What does the Kremlin require from Trump for peace talks and what surrender of Ukraine will mean – ISW April 2, 08:26 To share: Moscow has switched to requirements that made before the invasion (in the photo Kremlin and red square in Moscow) (photo: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov). The Russian Federation against Ukraine elimination of its so -called “root causes”.”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
Moscow went on to the requirements that it was voiced before the invasion (in the photo Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow) (photo: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
The Kremlin is increasingly calling a prerequisite for peace talks in the War of the Russian Federation against Ukraine elimination of its so -called ”the first cause.
This is stated in the new report by the Institute of War Study.
High -ranking Russian officials continue to repeat Russia’s demands on elimination so -called. “First Cause”wars in Ukraine, putting them off as prerequisites for the conclusion of a peace agreement. In this way, they actually use Russia’s initial requirements for war against Ukraine, which are directly contrary to the stated goal of US President Donald Trump to reach a long peace in Ukraine, the ISW analysts state.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov said on April 1, “We have not heard from [президента США Дональда] Trump of Kiev’s signal to end the war. Everything that is today is an attempt to find a certain scheme that would allow the ceasefire at first, as Americans imagine. And then move to some other models and schemes that, as far as you can judge, there is now no place for our main requirement – to solve problems related to the root causes of this conflict. ” Therefore, Ryabkov stated that Russia could not accept the US proposal.
The ISW reminds that Russian high -ranking officials have repeatedly identified these “root causes” of war as a alleged violation of NATO’s obligations not to expand to the East and allegedly violate Ukraine’s rights of Russian -speaking minorities in Ukraine. Therefore, the requirements of the Kremlin to eliminate these so -called “root causes” are reduced to the requirements of the full surrender of Ukraine with the establishment of a pro -Russian government in Ukraine, the ISW emphasizes. It is also about Moscow’s desire to achieve long -term neutrality of Ukraine – that is, the Russian Federation actually puts forward the same requirements that Putin voiced before a full -scale invasion in February 2022.
ISW experts also reminded that Putin has recently intensified attempts to present current Ukrainian authorities as if allegedly “illegitimate, and therefore unable to participate in the negotiations on the termination of the war in Ukraine, trying to undermine the role of Ukraine as a legal participant in debate to end the war.
At the end of March 2025, Putin and Russian diplomats made poorly veiled requirements for changing power in Ukraine by creating an external “temporary international administration” in Ukraine under the auspices of the United Nations. (UN). However, US State Department spokeswoman Temmy Bruce on March 31 stated that Trump did not like the proposal of Russia to create “Temporary Administration ”in Ukraine. Bruce also noted that, according to Trump, negotiations “will require Russia and Ukraine to make complex decisions and compromises. ” Russia has still refused to make any concessions and rejected the American-Ukrainian idea of a 30-day full ceasefire, in particular during Trump’s telephone conversation with Putin on March 18.