Russia Demands Finland Leave NATO in Abu Dhabi Talks: Report
Russian negotiators reportedly seek to reshape European security by keeping occupied Ukrainian land, blocking NATO bases in the Baltic states and forcing Finland out of the alliance.
- On Friday, the German newspaper Bild reported that Russian negotiators presented informal proposals in Abu Dhabi demanding Finland leave NATO and banning military bases in the Baltic states.
- Russian officials seek to establish a "new European security order," arguing Western governments previously promised not to enlarge NATO eastward to justify their informal outreach efforts.
- Russia demands control over occupied Ukrainian territory and the Donbas, while requiring demilitarization of the Odesa and Mykolaiv ports with separate freedom of navigation guarantees in the Black Sea and Baltic Sea.
- The plan envisions a federalized Moldova comprising core territory, Transnistria, and Gagauzia, with Russia offering to withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus if Moldova allows independence referendums upon joining the European Union.
- Ukraine would remain permanently non-aligned under the reported plan, ruling out NATO membership, though the proposal leaves open the possibility for Ukraine to pursue accession to the European Union.
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Russia made several requests at the negotiating table in Abu Dhabi.
Russia would have asked to retain the territories it has already occupied in Ukraine in order to put an end to the war.
Details of the trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi and Russia's demands have been revealed by the German newspaper Bild. According to the report, Russian negotiators have reportedly submitted a particularly extensive framework of conditions, which is not limited to the Ukrainian territorial issue, but extends to the entire European security architecture. Among the demands attributed to Moscow are Finland's withdrawal from NATO, as well as a ban …
According to information from the German Bild, Moscow is demanding that one of the NATO member states withdraw from the defense alliance in exchange for peace.
Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hjakkianen said Russia's demands to reduce NATO's presence in the countries of the alliance's eastern flank were not up for discussion.
It has been claimed that Russia, in informal talks held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, presented comprehensive demands that would also change Europe's security architecture. These demands reportedly include Finland withdrawing from NATO membership and the Baltic states...
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