Reuters: Putin seeks NATO enlargement to stop war, there are other conditions

From the article, published exclusively in Reuters, Russian President Vladimir Putin's conditions to end the war in Ukraine reportedly include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop NATO's eastward enlargement and lift part of sanctions against Russia.

“Putin is ready for peace, but not at any price”, has said one of the sources, requesting anonymity.

While all three Russian sources have indicated Putin requires a guarantee of “signed” by key Western powers not to expand the US-led alliance, NATO, eastward, which means the exclusion of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and other former Soviet countries from membership. It becomes known that Russia also wants Ukraine to remain neutral, remove some of the Western sanctions, resolve the issue of the frozen Russian sovereign assets in the West, and have protection for Russian-speaking in Ukraine, reports Reuters, broadcast Periscope.

While, according to one source, if Putin is convinced that he cannot reach a peace agreement under his terms, he will try to show Ukrainians and Europeans through military victories that “the peace tomorrow will be even more painful”.

We remember that, NATO has earlier declared that it will not change its “opener policy because of Moscow's demands. /Periscope/