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Putin signaled his plans for Ukraine in talks with Stubb and Støre: ISW explained what lies behind the statements
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with President of Finland Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre. In the conversation he again voiced the usual set of Kremlin demands and demanded that Donbas be handed over to him and that Russia be given the right to decide who may join NATO.
Putin called all these demands the "root causes" of the aggression against Ukraine; their "resolution," according to the dictator, should become a "prerequisite" for any peace negotiations. The information about the talks was analyzed by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).