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Reuters reported the information, citing sources familiar with high-level Kremlin thinking.
"Putin is ready to make peace but not at any price," said a senior Russian official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
According to the report, Putin seeks a written commitment from major Western powers not to expand NATO eastward — formally excluding Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and other former Soviet republics from membership.
Russia also wants Ukraine to adopt a neutral status, for some Western sanctions to be lifted, for the issue of frozen Russian sovereign assets in the West to be resolved, and for Russian-speaking Ukrainians to receive “protection,” the source said.