{"id":258586,"date":"2025-03-13T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/putin-in-no-hurry-for-cease-fire-demands-ukrainian-concessions\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:35:06","slug":"putin-in-no-hurry-for-cease-fire-demands-ukrainian-concessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/putin-in-no-hurry-for-cease-fire-demands-ukrainian-concessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin, in No Hurry for Cease-Fire, Demands Ukrainian Concessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13russia-ukraine-putin-qcmv\/13russia-ukraine-putin-qcmv-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Putin, in No Hurry for Cease-Fire, Demands Ukrainian Concessions\" title=\"Putin, in No Hurry for Cease-Fire, Demands Ukrainian Concessions\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday did not rule out a U.S. and Ukrainian proposal for a monthlong cease-fire, but he set down numerous conditions that would most likely delay any truce \u2014 or could make one impossible to achieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin\u2019s comments during a news conference highlighted the balance he was trying to strike, exuding confidence in Russia\u2019s position on the battlefield while seeking to continue talks with the United States and avoid upsetting President Trump. The U.S. president, having antagonized the country\u2019s allies and realigned American foreign policy in Russia\u2019s favor, has emerged as a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/05\/world\/europe\/russia-us-ukraine-trump-putin.html\" title=\"\">key geopolitical partner for Mr. Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Speaking at the Kremlin with the visiting president of Belarus, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Mr. Putin suggested that Ukraine was much more in need of a pause in the fighting than Russia was. He appeared confident that he would be able to force Ukraine to make extensive concessions, potentially including a requirement that Ukrainian soldiers in Russia\u2019s Kursk region surrender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn these conditions, it seems to me that it would be very good for the Ukrainian side if there were a cease-fire, even for 30 days,\u201d Mr. Putin said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re in favor of it. But there are nuances.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin then listed those \u201cnuances,\u201d starting with the Ukrainian forces still in Kursk. He said that Russia would not allow those troops to withdraw peacefully and that the Ukrainian leadership could instead order them \u201cto simply surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine stunned Russia in August with a cross-border incursion into Kursk, seizing several hundred square miles of territory. It was the first extensive fighting on Russian territory during the war, which Mr. Putin started with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Russia <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/russia-sudzha-recapture-kursk-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">now appears close to pushing Ukraine out of Kursk<\/a>, a development that would reduce Kyiv\u2019s leverage in any peace talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin also suggested he might demand that Ukraine halt its mobilization of new troops and Ukraine\u2019s Western allies stop arms deliveries, and said it was not clear how the cease-fire would be monitored along a front line of some 700 miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese are all questions demanding very careful study,\u201d Mr. Putin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin was set to meet with Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy, later on Thursday. The Russian leader added that he might \u201chave a call with President Trump and talk it over with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump, speaking with NATO\u2019s secretary general, Mark Rutte, in the Oval Office on Thursday, said there were \u201cvery serious discussions\u201d with Mr. Putin and others as they tried to finalize a 30-day cease-fire deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019d like to see a cease-fire from Russia,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters. When asked if he would speak with the Russian president, he said he would \u201clove to meet\u201d and talk with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As he has in the past, Mr. Putin said that any deal to end the fighting would need to address the \u201coriginal causes\u201d of the war \u2014 suggesting that he would push for major Western concessions, such as a reduction of NATO\u2019s presence in Eastern Europe, though it wasn\u2019t clear if he would make them a stipulation for a monthlong cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Putin also appeared to take pains to show he was ready for substantive negotiations with Mr. Trump, beginning his remarks on a cease-fire by thanking the American president for paying \u201cso much attention to a settlement in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin, notably, did not repeat the onerous <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/14\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-putin-cease-fire.html\" title=\"\">cease-fire conditions that he laid out in a speech last summer<\/a> and that Russian officials have been repeating ever since. He said at the time that Ukraine needed to withdraw in full from the four regions that Russia has claimed as its own but does not fully control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Dara Massicot, a Russian military specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, called Mr. Putin\u2019s new demands \u201cvery dangerous for Ukraine.\u201d In effect, she argued, Mr. Putin was pushing for a scenario in which the West would not be able to help Ukraine rebuild its armed forces while Russian factories pumped out new weaponry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat Putin said today implies that the West cannot support Ukraine while Russia regenerates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Tyler Pager<!-- --> and <!-- -->Eric Schmitt<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/putin-russia-ukraine-ceasefire.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday did not rule out a U.S. and Ukrainian proposal for a monthlong cease-fire, but he set down numerous conditions that would most likely delay any truce \u2014 or could make one impossible to achieve. Mr. Putin\u2019s comments during a news conference highlighted the balance he was trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13russia-ukraine-putin-qcmv\/13russia-ukraine-putin-qcmv-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175986,19560,7275,33339,137233,269,163575,34220,3096,94326,103120,209,202,15136,52,1130,9292,1021,128437,128440,168654],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258588,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258586\/revisions\/258588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}