NEW: Putin and members of the Russian delegation outlined Russia’s steadfast commitment to its original territorial demands of Ukraine and ultimatums to dismantle NATO and the post-Cold War European security architecture following the latest trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on November 12. Putin remains unwilling to compromise on any of these demands. ⬇️
– Putin is refusing to accept any proposed future demilitarized zone in post-war Ukraine or to abandon his demand that Ukraine hand over the parts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts that Russian forces have not seized.
– Putin is also unwilling to cede the territory in northern Ukraine that the Kremlin claims Russian forces have seized but that lies outside of the four illegally annexed oblasts.
– Putin continues to reject all meaningful Western security guarantees for post-war Ukraine.
– Russian negotiators used the Abu Dhabi talks to reassert their 2021 demands of NATO.
