“Experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) indicate that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal being developed by US President-elect Donald Trump’s team for a possible peace plan.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) indicate that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal being developed by US President-elect Donald Trump’s team for a possible peace plan.
Source: ISW
Details: Analysts say Putin outright rejected a proposal Trump’s team was considering to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership for at least a decade as a condition for ending the war in Ukraine.
The review indicates that Putin responded on December 26 to a journalist’s request to comment on the Trump team’s proposal to delay Ukraine’s membership in NATO for 10-20 years.
The leader of the Kremlin said that it does not matter whether Ukraine joins NATO “today, tomorrow or in 10 years.”
Literally ISW: “Putin’s Dec. 26 statement is part of a series of comments he has made recently reaffirming his refusal to consider compromises on his late 2021-early 2022 demands.
These demands include forcing Ukraine to become a permanently neutral state that will never join NATO, imposing strict limits on the size of the Ukrainian army, and removing the Ukrainian government.”
ISW key findings for 26 December:
- Putin unequivocally rejected a proposal being considered by US President-elect Donald Trump’s team to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership for at least a decade as a condition for ending the war in Ukraine.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov repeated Putin’s false statements that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate and cannot be Russia’s legitimate partner in negotiations.
- Russian troops likely captured Kurakhov after two months of intensive offensive operations aimed at capturing the settlement and eliminating Ukrainian positions to the north and south of it.
- Russian troops may try to quickly advance further west of Kurakhovo along the H-15 Kurakhovo-Pokrovskoe highway if Ukrainian troops decide to defend in the area of the Kurakhiv TPP, and Russian troops cannot outflank Ukrainian positions in the TPP area near Dachnoy or Ulakli.
- On the night of December 24-25, Russian troops carried out a large series of missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities, causing serious damage to the TPP.
- On December 25, Ukrainian troops launched a successful attack on the command post of a Russian unit stationed in the Kursk region.
- On December 25 and 26, Ukrainian troops struck Russian ammunition depots in the Rostov region and facilities of the Russian defense and industrial base in the Rostov and Tambov regions.
- A Russian air defense system reportedly shot down an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 passenger jet over the Chechen Republic on December 25, after which the plane crashed in Aktau, Kazakhstan.
- Japan will provide Ukraine with non-lethal aid in the amount of 3 billion dollars, which will be obtained exclusively from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets.
- Ukrainian troops advanced near Toretsk, and Russian troops – near Kupiansk, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and Velika Novosilka.
- Russian so-called military bloggers have admitted that the Russian Ministry of Defense is trying to monopolize crowdfunding for the Russian military amid the ongoing fallout from the deaths of two Russian drone operators in September 2024.