The US and Ukraine recently agreed to offer Russia a 30-day ceasefire.

Russia will seek guarantees that NATO will exclude Ukraine from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral in any peace agreement, a Russian deputy foreign minister said, the BBC reported.
"We will ask for ironclad security guarantees to become part of this agreement. Part of these guarantees should be Ukraine's neutral status, the refusal of NATO countries to accept it into the alliance," Alexander Grushko told a Russian media outlet.
This comes at a time when US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to hold talks in the coming days as negotiations continue on a possible ceasefire in Ukraine's three-year-old war.
The US and Ukraine recently agreed to offer Russia a 30-day ceasefire.
Although Putin has expressed support for a ceasefire, he has also laid out a list of tough conditions for peace.
One of the disputed areas is Russia's western Kursk region, where Ukraine launched a military incursion last August and seized part of the territory.
Putin announced that Russia had regained full control of Kursk, and noted that Ukrainian troops there "have been isolated."
He also raised numerous questions about how the ceasefire could be monitored and policed along the front line in the east of the country.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Putin of trying to "sabotage" diplomatic efforts to achieve an immediate ceasefire.
U.S. envoy Steve Whitkoff, who met with Putin on Thursday (13.03) in Moscow, told CNN that he expects "there will be a conversation this week" between Trump and Putin.
During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to end the war, which began with Russia's full-scale invasion of the neighboring country in 2022, on the "first day" of his new administration.
Less than a month after taking office, Trump held a call with Putin, which reportedly lasted 90 minutes, to immediately begin negotiations to end the war.
Whitkoff declined to answer a question about how Russian-occupied land in Ukraine could be addressed in a potential deal. Russia currently controls about a fifth of Ukraine's territory. | BGNES