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US President Donald Trump cancelled a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over his maximalist demands and refusal to negotiate, according to a report.
The Financial Times has reported that Russia sent a memo to the United States that listed Putin’s terms to end the war. These terms were what Putin and his aides have long referred to as ‘root causes’, a euphemism for demands that essentially call for Ukraine's surrender of sovereignty and nationhood.
After the Trump administration received the memo, Secretary of Marco Rubio had a tense call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Following their call, Rubio told Trump that Russia did not have any willingness to negotiate, according to FT.
After assessing that Putin did not wish to negotiate and wanted to press his longstanding maximalist demands, Trump cancelled the summit in Hungary that he had previously announced after a call with the Russian leader, the report stated.
Following the cancellation of the summit, Trump had said that he did not go ahead with it because he did not want to have a “wasted” meeting with Putin.
What are Putin’s maximalist terms?
In talks mediated by Turkey, Russia formally submitted its demands to Ukraine. These are Putin’s maximalist demands that seek to address what Putin has long called ‘root causes’ of the ongoing conflict.
Putin has not just sought the recognition of Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation, but has sought Ukraine’s surrender of all territories it has claimed — even those territories are outside of Russian control.
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After the end of the war, Ukraine’s military will have restrictions on its size, deployment, and equipment, according to Putin’s demands.
As part of efforts to reshape the Ukrainian nation, Putin has also sought to insert the Russian language in official business, restore the pro-Russia Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and ban what so-called “nationalist formations” in the country.
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