Bloomberg reports that during negotiations with Trump, Putin will insist on limiting Ukraine's military and permanently prohibiting its NATO membership.

Russia will demand that Ukraine completely sever military ties with NATO and become a neutral state with a limited army during negotiations with the future U.S. President Donald Trump.

Source. This was reported by Bloomberg referencing sources familiar with the matter.

Putin, who is increasingly confident in his advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine, will make it a primary condition for a ceasefire that Ukraine never joins NATO and that its military capabilities are reduced, sources familiar with the conversations in the Kremlin say.

According to them, Putin also demands that Russia retains control over 20% of Ukraine's territory that the army has seized over the three years of war. Meanwhile, Moscow is open to some "territorial exchanges," the agency's sources indicate, as hundreds of square kilometers of the Kursk region remain under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which attacked the area in August.

The Kremlin's demands have become more stringent: about a year ago, through private channels, Putin informed the U.S. that he was willing to abandon the demand for Ukraine's neutral status and even allow it to join NATO in the future, Bloomberg's sources claim.

However, since then the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the frontline has worsened, Russian troops have resumed their offensive in Donbas, and this has emboldened Putin, agency interlocutors say.

Currently, Russia and Ukraine are reportedly conducting limited negotiations in Qatar to secure both countries' nuclear power plants from attacks, according to Bloomberg.

The dialogue between the Kremlin and the new U.S. administration "at the command level has already been initiated" in November-December 2024, and there has also been a first direct contact between Putin and Donald Trump, earlier reported by The Moscow Times citing two Russian officials. According to them, the Kremlin and Trump's team deliberately did not publicize the fact that dialogue had begun and actively denied it after media reports emerged to avoid pressure from the American establishment on the future U.S. president.

Currently, the Kremlin is searching for a candidate to serve as the chief negotiator with the new U.S. administration, and it is likely that this role will be entrusted to someone close to Putin, who may have worked with him back in St. Petersburg, a source revealed.