Putin demands tough conditions for Ukraine peace!

Putin demands tough conditions for Ukraine peace!

Kiew, Ukraine - On May 28, 2025, Wladimir Putin formulated clear conditions for the end of the war in Ukraine, which he imposed on the western states. According to OE24 , he demands a written promise to stop the NATO east expansion against Russia. In a conversation with US President Donald Trump, Putin said that he was working on a memorandum for a peace agreement with Ukraine, but without naming a schedule for its completion.

Putin is under pressure because Ukraine and western states accuse him of delaying the peace process in order to make military profits. The Kremlin has increasingly carried out attacks on Ukraine in the past few days, while Kiev emphasizes that one was ready for unconditional ceasefire. However, Putin rejected this.

conditions for peace

The conditions that Putin calls for peace include: the political and military neutrality of Ukraine, the protection of Russian -speaking people in Ukraine and the abolition of western sanctions. In addition, he demands a solution for frozen Russian state assets in the West and is less willing to compromise on territorial questions, especially with regard to control over the four eastern regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherson and Saporischschja.

The Ukrainian government, on the other hand, is the right to decide on a possible NATO accession itself and calls for security guarantees of the West to prevent future attacks by Russia. The NATO spokesman has announced that a change in the "open house policy" under Russia is out of the question of what the last doubts about a NATO membership of Ukraine.

historical context

In order to better understand the Situation, it is important to shed light on the historical perspective for the NATO east extension. On February 21, 2022, Putin recognized the self-proclaimed People's Republics Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states and accused the West of violating agreed agreements from the early 1990s. The historian Wolfgang Müller explains that the promises of NATO expansion, which go back to the two-plus four-contract of 1990, are not legally binding.

In addition, it can hardly be overlooked that NATO east expansion has progressed in the following years: in 1999 the first states of the former Warsaw Pact of NATO joined Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Eleven other countries joined by 2020. The security concerns of Russia are based on an outdated historian, while historians emphasize that there is currently no factual military threat from NATO or Ukraine.

Although the Kremlin emphasizes that it is ready to continue the dialogue, as long as certain conditions are met, the future of the conflict remains uncertain. The complexity of the geopolitical processes and the persistence of the parties involved make a quick solution to the conflict.