putin rejects Trump team's peace plan proposal - ISW

Experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) point out that russian president vladimir putin has rejected a proposal developed by the team of US President-elect Donald Trump for a possible peace plan. This was reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), UNN reports .

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ISW analysts note that Putin directly rejected a proposal considered by the Trump team to postpone Ukraine's membership in NATO for at least ten years as a condition for ending the war in Ukraine.  

The review points out that putin responded on December 26 to a journalist's request to comment on the Trump team's proposal to postpone Ukraine's membership in NATO for 10-20 years.

The Kremlin leader said that it does not matter whether Ukraine joins NATO "today, tomorrow or in 10 years.

putin's December 26 statement is part of a series of comments he has made recently reiterating his refusal to consider compromises on his demands for late 2021 and early 2022. These demands include forcing Ukraine to become a permanently neutral state that will never join NATO, imposing severe limits on the size of the Ukrainian army, and removing the Ukrainian government

ISW's key findings for December 26:

- putin has explicitly rejected a proposal considered by US President-elect Donald Trump's team to postpone Ukraine's membership in NATO for at least ten years as a condition for ending the war in Ukraine.

- russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov repeated putin's false claims that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate and cannot be a legitimate partner in negotiations with russia.

- russian troops apparently captured Kurakhove after two months of intense offensive operations aimed at seizing the town and eliminating Ukrainian positions to the north and south of it.

- russian troops could try to quickly advance further west of Kurakhove along the H-15 Kurakhove-Pokrovske highway if Ukrainian troops decide to defend themselves in the vicinity of the Kurakhove TPP and russian troops are unable to outflank Ukrainian positions in the vicinity of the TPP near Dachne or Ulakly.

- On the night of December 24-25, russian troops carried out a large series of missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, causing serious damage to thermal power plants.

- On December 25, Ukrainian troops successfully attacked the command post of a russian unit stationed in the Kursk region.

- Ukrainian troops struck a russian ammunition depot in Rostov region and russian military industrial base facilities in Rostov and Tambov regions on December 25 and 26.

- A russian air defense system reportedly shot down an Azerbaijani Airlines Embraer 190 passenger plane over the Chechen Republic on December 25, after which the plane crashed in Aktau, Kazakhstan.

- Japan will provide non-lethal aid to Ukraine in the amount of $3 billion, which will be derived exclusively from the proceeds of frozen russian assets.

- Ukrainian troops advanced near Toretsk, while russian troops advanced near Kupyansk, Toretsk, Pokrovsk and Velyka Novosilka.

- russian so-called military bloggers have admitted that the russian Ministry of Defense is trying to monopolize crowdfunding for the russian military amid the ongoing fallout from the deaths of two russian drone operators in September 2024.

Recall

russia declaresthat negotiations with Ukraine should be based solely on the terms that were announced in Istanbul and refuses any compromises, despite the changes on the front and Ukraine's significant territorial gains.