He outlined the plans of the russian authorities in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Putin’s plan envisions that the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrender without a fight the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts they currently control to the occupiers. In turn, the russians would withdraw their troops from the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv oblasts. In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, the front line would remain unchanged.
The key points, according to Suslov, are Ukraine’s commitment not to join NATO, the demilitarization of Ukraine, and the implementation of a constitutional reform that would establish a federal structure for the country.
If the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, refuses to comply with this de facto ultimatum, the kremlin will ask Donald Trump to end all military aid to Kyiv, including European assistance.
It is telling that the adviser to the russian dictator claims that russia and the USA can decide the fate of a sovereign state by concluding a bilateral agreement that excludes Ukraine and Europe.