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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko reportedly said Kremlin wants a guarantee “Ironclad” that Ukraine will be forbidden to join North Atlantic Organization (NATO), How Trump’s administration works to conclude an agreement to end the fights.
“We will request that IronCLAD safety guarantees are becoming part of this agreement,” Grushko said the Russian newspaper excerpts, Reuters states. “Part of these guarantees should be a neutral status of Ukraine, rejection of NATO countries to accept it in the Alliance.”
Grushko allegedly did not mention the 30-day proposal to interrupt the fire, which Ukraine accepted with American negotiators in Saudi Arabia last week. Russian president Vladimir Putin stated that each agreement must first meet the key conditions.
At this pool, a photo shared by the Russian State Agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired the Council of Security Council through a video conference in the state residence Novo-Agare, outside Moscow on March 14, 2025. (Aleksey Babushkin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
US Special Envoy in the Middle East Steve Witkoff said on Sunday CNN that Trump and Putin is expected to talk on the phone this week. Witkoff himself described that last week he had a “positive” and “solution” with Putin in Moscow.
Grushko reportedly reiterated in an interview that Russia remains strictly opposed to the deployment of European troops in Ukraine, As Britain, France and Australia signaled that they were open to sending NATO “peaceful” forces into the ground.
“It is not important in accordance with NATO’s contingents, they should have been deployed in the Ukrainian territory: whether it was the European Union, NATO or at the national capacity,” Grushko said, Reuters reports. “If they appear there, it means that they are arranged in the conflict zone with all the consequences for these contingents as parties in the conflict.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko participates in a meeting of Russian Foreign Minister and Secretary General OESA Moscow on March 11, 2025. (Maxim Schemet’s/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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“We can talk about unarmed observers, a civilian mission that would control the implementation of individual aspects of this agreement or guarantee mechanisms,” Grushko added, saying that it should be achieved first. “In the meantime, it’s just hot air.”
United Keir Starmer’s United Kingdom Prime Minister held a virtual meeting with 26 countries that are potentially ready to be involved in the “Peace Force” in Ukraine, Telegraph reported.
French President Emmanuel Macron, In the meantime, it was quoted as if several French media were said on Saturday that it was “to arrange several thousand men per nation, at key points, to implement the training program” and “show our support in the long run”.
“If Ukraine asked the Allied forces to be in its territory, it is not in Russia in Russia to accept or not,” Macron said.
French President Emmanuel Macron participates in the video reconstruction as he participates in the virtual summit held by the British Prime Minister and focused on peace and security in Ukraine, at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 15, 2025. (Kiran Ridley/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also said he would be willing to send troops.
Grushko further argued that the solution to a three-year conflict could only be held if European allies Kiyiv realized that Ukraine must be forbidden to be a NATO membership and that foreign military contingents were kept.
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“It will then ensure the security of Ukraine and the entire region in a broader sense, since one of the root causes of conflict will be eliminated,” Grushko said.
