According to the publication, the proposal was conveyed to Vladimir Putin by US special envoy Steve Witkoff during a three-hour meeting in St. Petersburg last week. This concerns technical trilateral negotiations between Russia, the US and Ukraine in the first half of November.
According to the newspaper’s sources, Moscow may demand reducing NATO’s presence in Eastern Europe to the 1997 level, before the alliance’s expansion eastward began. This could mean the withdrawal of NATO troops from Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland.
