“A stable result that fits Russia” – Putin still uninterested in peace, says Isw

The Russian leader Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin officials have not given up “their original war goals in Ukraine and continued to defeat Ukraine militarily in the past three years” week.

Despite the latest calls with US President Donald Trump, the recent statements by the Russian dictator seem to reject the possibility of a peace agreement with Ukraine and illustrate an appetite for war.

“Putin continues to signal the Russian military and society interest in peace negotiations in western leaders,” the analysts wrote.

Kremlin official officially rejected the possibility of an armistice, others than the complete surrender of Ukraine and the West on February 24th.

In addition, Putin from Trump's comments seemed amazed that the Kremlin somehow has “no problem” with European troops who guarantee peace in Ukraine if an armistice should be arranged.

Trump said at a Press Conference of the White House on Monday and sat together with French President Emmanuel Macron that he “expressly asked” Putin to ensure European troops to ensure peace troops and that the Russian autocrat “has no problem with it “.

When Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked about Trump's claims, Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Tuesday: “The Russian Foreign Minister had already said everything about it.”

Peskov referred to comments that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was done last week after the talks in Saudi Arabia with a US delegation. Lavrov said: “The use of troops … [from] The NATO countries, but under a foreign flag, under the flag of the European Union or under national flags … is of course unacceptable for us. “

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed on February 24th during a press conference in Turkey that Russia will only hire military activities in Ukraine if peace negotiations lead to a “solid, stable result” and blame the “realities” of the battlefield .

The Foreign Minister confirmed the Russian claims that a peace agreement must include provisions that Ukraine ban on NATO in the future.

The Russian officials also continue to framework the demands of Russia for Ukrainian armed forces to withdraw from the area, which the Ukrainian armed forces are currently controlling in eastern and southern Ukraine as a “compromise”.

The ISW report notes that the youngest domestic surveys indicate that Russians are increasingly supporting Russia, which continues the war in Ukraine until it reaches a complete Ukrainian surrender, but at the same time feels the economic great of the three years of the Russian war.

The Ukrainian Ukrinform of the state media also found that a survey surveyed by the independent Russian opposition between 5 and 13 February showed that 46 percent of the respondents do not support the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine without Russia had achieved his war goals. At the same time, 54 percent of those surveyed stated in February 2025 that the war had negatively influenced their daily life.