“Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Erdogan intends to announce his plan to freeze the Russian-Ukrainian war at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18.”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Some option of freezing along the line of combat, of course, it is a priori unacceptable for the Russian side. In this case, the terms formulated by President Putin in June remain fully relevant. This is what needs to be done in order for hostilities to be stopped,” said Dmytro Peskov, spokesman for the President of the Russian Federation, at the briefing.
He added that Erdogan’s plan was not discussed between the leaders of the Russian Federation and Turkey, and the Kremlin only knows about it from media publications.
Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Erdogan intends to announce his plan to freeze the Russian-Ukrainian war at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18. The Turkish president’s proposal envisages the creation of a demilitarized zone in Donbas and the deployment of international troops there. According to Erdogan’s plan, Ukraine will postpone the discussion of joining NATO for at least 10 years, sources told the agency.
In June 2024, at a speech at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin put forward his own conditions for ending the Russian-Ukrainian war. He demands from Kyiv the complete withdrawal of troops from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions (none of these regions is fully controlled by Moscow) and recognition of these occupied territories as Russian regions, as already written in the Russian constitution. Putin also demands that Ukraine abandon plans to join NATO, and Western sanctions against Russia be lifted. Putin called this plan a “real peace proposal” – not a freeze, but a “final end” to the war.
Ukraine and its Western allies consider Putin’s demands an unrealistic ultimatum.