{"id":3856,"date":"2025-12-24T22:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:47:50","slug":"ukraine-talks-must-be-behind-closed-doors-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/ukraine-talks-must-be-behind-closed-doors-kremlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine talks must be behind closed doors \u2013 Kremlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has weighed in on reports that Russia is seeking changes to a new US-drafted peace plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any Ukraine peace talks should be held <em>\u201cbehind closed doors\u201d<\/em> rather than through megaphone diplomacy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Russian business daily RBK on Wednesday, Peskov declined to weigh in on a Bloomberg report claiming that Moscow is seeking changes to a 20\u2011point peace plan draft, which was purportedly negotiated by US and Ukrainian delegations.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo, there will be no comments here. We continue to believe that everything should be conducted behind closed doors,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky unveiled a plan that would require Russian forces to withdraw from Ukraine\u2019s Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy, and Nikolayev regions, while freezing the conflict along current front lines in Russia\u2019s Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson regions. Zelensky has also demanded\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em><em>Article 5-like<\/em>\u201d\u00a0security guarantees from the US, NATO, and European states.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Vladimir Zelensky\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694cfd172030270812744149.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/629988-zelensky-christmas-threat-putin\/\">Zelensky issues veiled insult at Putin in \u2018Christmas\u2019 address<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, Moscow views the 20-point peace plan as a <em>\u201cstarting point for further negotiations\u201d<\/em> but <em>\u201clack[ing] provisions important for Russia\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cfail[ing] to answer many questions.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Moscow\u00a0in particular is reportedly seeking guarantees against future NATO expansion and\u00a0on Ukraine\u2019s neutral status if it joins the EU.<\/p>\n<p>It also reportedly wants stricter limits on Ukrainian armed forces, while believing that the document does not provide clear assurances on the status of the Russian language in Ukraine. Bloomberg also reported that Russia wants clarity on the issue of removing sanctions and on frozen Russian state assets.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s roadmap is a far cry from the initial 28\u2011point version of the US-drafted plan, which was leaked to the media last month. The plan reportedly required Kiev to relinquish parts of Russia\u2019s Donbass region still under Ukrainian control, pledge not to join NATO, and cut the size of its armed forces. Kiev has repeatedly rejected any concessions.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has said the US-drafted document could serve as a basis for future negotiations. Russia maintains that a sustainable settlement is only possible if Ukraine recognizes new territorial realities and commits to neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has weighed in on reports that Russia is seeking changes to a new US-drafted peace plan Any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}