WarMonitor on Nostr: According to Bloomberg, the United States will demand that Russia accept Ukraine’s ...

According to Bloomberg, the United States will demand that Russia accept Ukraine’s right to have its own military and defense industry as part of a peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv, which would require that Russian President Putin drop his demand for demilitarization in Ukraine. In addition, the Trump administration also wants Moscow to return Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which was captured near the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The plant would then fall under U.S. military and civil control, in order to see that energy is distributed to both Russia and Ukraine. The U.S. will also request that Ukraine have full-access to the Dnieper River and that Russian forces withdraw from the Kharkiv Oblast in Northeastern Ukraine.

These conditions, as well as several concessions that the U.S. hopes Kyiv will eventually agree to, including recognition of Russia’s control over Crimea as well as large parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, and an agreement that Ukraine will not attempt to retake the regions using military force, is expected to be raised by White House Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff during his next meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Witkoff will reportedly travel to Moscow for his fourth visit this weekend, though it’s not known if he will meet once again with Putin.