From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / May 29, 2025
As Russia demands NATO’s capitulation and Ukraine’s surrender in leaked peace terms, Ukrainian drones devastate Moscow’s war machine in one of the largest strikes of the conflict while Trump sets a two-week deadline for Putin’s sincerity
Summary of the Day – May 28, 2025
Vladimir Putin’s true “peace” demands emerged through leaked Russian sources: Ukraine’s complete capitulation, NATO’s effective dissolution, and sanctions relief—nothing less than the West’s surrender. Ukraine answered with massive drone strikes devastating Russian defense plants from Moscow to Ivanovo, destroying cruise missile factories and microchip facilities in one of the war’s largest industrial attacks. Trump set a two-week ultimatum for Putin’s sincerity while Germany pledged €5 billion in aid without Taurus missiles, Russia reduced Belarus exercises due to manpower shortages, and the UN confirmed systematic war crimes in Kherson. The day revealed the fundamental contradiction: Putin demands impossible terms while Ukraine demonstrates growing capabilities to make prolonged war unsustainable for Moscow.
The Capitulation Demands: Putin’s True Price for “Peace”
Reuters’ bombshell revelation May 28 exposed Vladimir Putin’s actual negotiating position, stripping away diplomatic pretense to reveal demands that amount to Ukraine’s complete surrender and NATO’s dissolution. Three Russian sources familiar with Kremlin thinking confirmed what many suspected: Putin’s “peace” talks are merely a vehicle for achieving through diplomacy what he cannot secure through force.
The Russian demands read like a conqueror’s ultimatum: written pledges from major Western powers never to expand NATO eastward, effectively blocking Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova from membership forever; Ukrainian neutrality enshrined in constitutional changes; comprehensive sanctions relief; resolution of frozen Russian sovereign assets; and nebulous “protections” for Russian speakers in Ukraine—the same pretext Moscow used to justify its 2022 invasion.
Most tellingly, Putin has “toughened his position” on territorial concessions, according to the Reuters sources, now demanding the entirety of four Ukrainian oblasts—Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson—including vast areas Russian forces have never occupied. The maximalist stance reveals the Kremlin’s calculation that time favors Russia, with one source stating Putin believes he can “fight for years” against any Western economic pressure.
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