VLADIMIR Putin has brazenly listed his “surrender demands” for Ukraine – despite being humiliated by Russia’s “Pearl Harbour”.
The deranged tyrant’s negotiators said an end to the war would only be agreed if Kyiv surrenders huge chunks of territory and accepts limits on the size of its army.
Moscow’s audacious demands came just a day after Ukraine orchestrated Operation Spiderweb – which wiped out a third of Putin’s nuclear bombers.
The sophisticated attack saw 117 drones smuggled into Russia before unleashing hell on Putin’s airfields.
Spiderweb – dubbed Russia’s “Pearl Harbour” – took 18 months to plan and is understood to have cost Putin billions in damages.
Despite being left red-faced by the mammoth assault, Putin’s mouthpieces shamelessly gave his terms for a ceasefire during a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.
Its first section contained Moscow’s “basic parameters of a final settlement”.
The sham proposal demands Ukraine withdraw its troops from four eastern regions that Russia only partly occupies at the moment.
It also ordered that the international community recognise Crimea as Russia’s sovereign territory – after they annexed the peninsula in 2014.
Putin’s shopping list of demands went on to detail that Kyiv must commit to limiting the size of its military.
The tyrant also wants Ukraine to permanently declare neutrality and host no foreign troops whatsoever on its territory.
Other terms of the settlement included a bizarre ban on the “glorification or promotion of Nazism and neo-Nazism” in Ukraine – an accusation that Putin’s propaganda teams have consistently peddled.
Moscow also asked for diplomatic and economic ties between the neighbouring countries to be reinstated.
This would include the resumption of Russian natural gas flowing through Ukraine in order to be sold to other countries.
The unrealistic demands have been seen as yet another ploy to stall peace talks while Putin continues to carry out his bloody invasion.
The second section in the settlement listed the Kremlin’s conditions for agreeing to a temporary 30-day ceasefire.
It gave Kyiv two choices -either withdraw troops from four regions claimed by Russia, or agree to cancelling martial law and holding elections.
Additional requirements packaged up with the two options included a total cessation of all foreign military aid, and for Ukraine to start demobilising.
The negotiations were brokered by the US and Turkey at the Ciragan palace – but appeared to bring neither side closer to a truce.
But they did manage to agree to an exchange of 6,000 dead bodies, and an “all-for-all” swap of seriously wounded prisoners of war, and captured servicemen under the age of 25.
Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/14384845/putin-ukraine-surrender-demands-deranged/