Have Russia’s Demands to the West Shifted?

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00:00Dmitry, sources close to the Kremlin are saying that Putin won't budge unless the West engages in Russia's terms.

00:06You've spoken just now about Ukraine's terms, but what are the terms that Russia has for the West?

00:12And have they shifted at all? Because Russia has gained ground in Ukraine, as we know.

00:16Has he changed those terms?

00:18I don't think so. From 2022, from the beginning of what's called the Special Military Operation,

00:24the Kremlin didn't change its policies towards Ukraine. It's still the same policies.

00:31And even the sanctions that were implemented on Russia didn't change the mind of the Russian President Vladimir Putin towards Ukraine.

00:40Of course, the Special Operational War on Ukraine is making a huge problem for the Russian economy.

00:47We're talking about sanctions. We're talking about, for example, big corporations like Gazprom had lost thousands of US dollars.

01:00And also, the Russian economy totally changed beginning from 2022 towards having a better relationship with Asian countries,

01:09with Arab countries, with Arab countries, towards working more on BRICS as alternative, let's say, platform for cooperation.

01:21But Russia still didn't change its mind.

01:25So we're talking about the same position, the same policies toward Ukraine.

01:31Ukraine should be not a land that could harm Russia, could make any, let's say, dangerous movements or toward Russia.

01:42And the same request about political changes in Ukraine, that in Ukraine should be presidential elections

01:51and also elections in the Ukrainian parliament in order to have, like, ceasefire and have negotiations to be successful.