{"id":27754,"date":"2025-03-17T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T06:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27754"},"modified":"2025-03-17T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T10:16:59","slug":"russia-seeks-ironclad-guarantees-about-ukraine-staying-out-of-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/03\/russia-seeks-ironclad-guarantees-about-ukraine-staying-out-of-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia seeks &#8220;ironclad&#8221; guarantees about Ukraine staying out of NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Russia will seek &#8220;ironclad&#8221; guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy foreign minister said in remarks published on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump is trying\u00a0to win President\u00a0Vladimir Putin&#8217;s support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week and which Putin says needs to meet crucial conditions to be acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is expected to speak with his Putin this week on ways to end the three-year war in Ukraine, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN on Sunday after returning from what he described as a &#8220;positive&#8221; meeting with Putin in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>In a broad-ranging interview with the Russian media outlet Izvestia that made no reference to the ceasefire proposal, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said that any long-lasting peace treaty on Ukraine must meet Moscow&#8217;s demands.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will demand that ironclad security guarantees become part of this agreement,&#8221; Izvestia cited Grushko as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of these guarantees should be the neutral status of Ukraine, the refusal of NATO countries to accept it into the alliance.&#8221;<br \/>\nMoscow is categorically against the deployment of NATO observers to Ukraine, Grushko also reiterated the Kremlin&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>Britain and France both have said that they\u00a0were willing\u00a0to send a peacekeeping force to monitor any ceasefire in Ukraine. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his country was also open to requests.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel\u00a0Macron said\u00a0in remarks published on Sunday that the stationing of peacekeeping troops in Ukraine is a question for Kyiv to decide and not Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia will seek &#8220;ironclad&#8221; guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy foreign minister said in remarks published on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,244,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-europe","category-headline"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27764,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27754\/revisions\/27764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}