#russian-demands

#russian-demands

Leaders of Ukraine's allies gathered Tuesday in Paris for key talks that could help determine the country's security after any potential peace deal is reached with Russia. But prospects for progress are uncertain: The Trump administration's focus is shifting to Venezuela while U.S. suggestions of a Greenland takeover are causing tension with Europe, and Moscow shows no signs of budging from its demands in its nearly 4-year-old invasion.

The Ukraine peace process is now moving as fast as can reasonably be expected. Only two months ago, all sides were still locked in positions that gave no chance at all of progress. Russia was demanding complete Ukrainian withdrawal from all the four provinces it claims to have annexed, and a bar on all Western arms supplies to Ukraine-things that neither Ukraine nor Western governments could possibly accept.