Vladimir Putin has articulated a set of hard‑line demands on Ukraine, from giving up Donbas to ties and remaining neutral, while Moscow also launched a night attack on Lviv.**Açıklama:**
Putin’s demands from Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine relinquish the entire Donbas region, abandon any push to join NATO, maintain neutrality, and not host Western forces on its soil. Reuters, citing three sources well‑versed in Kremlin plans, reported the move in this light. It noted that in June 2024 Putin had asked Kyiv to give up Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts – demands Ukraine dismissed as tantamount to capitulation. Earlier, following a meeting with former U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska, unofficial talks suggested further conditions, including a total handover of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014 in breach of international law.
Kremlin’s stance on Ukraine’s NATO ambitions
Reuters also highlighted that Putin still insists on Ukraine abandoning its NATO aspirations. He also presses for commitments that NATO will not expand eastwards and urges Ukraine’s demilitarization, with no foreign troops allowed on its territory as part of peacekeeping forces.
Night attack on Lviv
Moscow launched another nighttime, large‑scale assault on Ukraine, with blasts and anti‑aircraft fire reported in Lviv, Lutsk, and Mykolaiv. Andrij Sadowy said Russian forces attacked with Shahed drones and missiles. The Lviv military administration recorded one fatality and two injuries. Similar fireworks shrouded attacks also struck Zhytomyr, Dnipro, regions of Poltava and Sumy, damaging industrial infrastructure and residential buildings. In the Mykolaiv region 12 people were wounded, and a fire broke out in a storeroom in Lviv.
Source: Gazeta,