Ukraine War: Russian secret service chief names conditions for the end of the war

Moscow’s head of secret Sergei Naryschkin has mentioned several conditions for the end of the Russian attack war in Ukraine. Ukraine, for example, must forego NATO accession and forego the areas incorporated by Moscow, said Naryschkin, according to the state news agency TASS.

Moscow’s war goals remain unchanged after the US specialist Steve Witkoff had been negotiating with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin for hours on Friday. The meeting in St. Petersburg also dealt with the end of the war.

“The conditions of the peace agreement naturally include a nuclear weapons -free, neutral status of Ukraine, the demilitarization and denazification of the Ukrainian state, the abolition of all discriminatory laws that were passed after the state coup,” said Naryschkin, referring to the fall of the Ukrainian President of the Ukrain. Protested protests. An agreement, continues Naryschkin, must also include “the recognition of sovereignty and the territorial limits of the Russian Federation – the current territorial boundaries”.

After the annexation of the Black Sea Peninsula 2014 in 2022, after controversial referendums, the Ukrainian areas of Luhansk, Donetsk, Cherson and Saporischschja also declared his regions. In addition to the Crimea, Russia controls none of the areas completely.

Russia praises the USA and criticizes Europe

Naryschkin praised that the dialogue between Russia and the USA had been resumed. Both countries are working after calls between Putin and US President Donald Trump on restoring their relationships and the solution in the Ukraine conflict. At the same time, Naryschkin accused Germany, France and Great Britain to escalate the situation in the war. Together with Belarus, which also has a border with Poland, Russia sees an increase in NATO activities at the limits, said Naryschkin when visiting the capital Minsk.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskow said that Russia and the United States worked hard on a peace solution for Ukraine. On the other hand, he accused Europe of being interested in a continuation of the war with arms deliveries to Ukraine. The EU and the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj reject this and emphasize to strive for peace through strength.