Russia has publicly rejected Trump’s peace plan; what does the aggressor need?

PoliticsWar Russia has publicly rejected Trump’s peace plan; what does the aggressor need? Tuesday, April 29, 2025

In line with Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov, among the many Russian calls for are:

1. Ukraine should not be a part of NATO, remaining impartial and non-aligned.
2. Worldwide recognition of the “Russian affiliation of Crimea, Sevastopol, the ‘DPR’, ‘LPR’, Kherson area, and Zaporizhzhia,” that means acknowledgment of all Ukrainian areas presently occupied by Russia.
3. “Demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine, which seemingly means limiting the scale of the Ukrainian navy and the protection trade.
4. Lifting sanctions and the return of Russia’s frozen property.
5. “Overcoming the implications of the rule of the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv, which emerged from the coup in February 2014,” that allegedly “destroyed all the things Russian” in Ukraine – language, media, tradition, traditions, and “canonical Orthodoxy.”

On not less than a number of factors, Lavrov’s speech is misaligned with the Trump administration’s proposal. Trump’s plan doesn’t impose any restrictions on the Ukrainian navy. In actual fact, Washington believes Kyiv ought to retain a robust navy and protection trade. Moreover, Trump’s plan doesn’t restrict the usage of Western navy personnel as guarantors of peace in Ukraine. Earlier, Lavrov additionally dismissed the proposal to switch management of the Zaporizhzhia NPP to the US and Ukraine, stating that the plant “is in secure arms.”