Overview
- Presidential office chief Kyrylo Budanov said Russia indicated it would accept U.S.-proposed security guarantees for Ukraine during the last negotiating round.
- Budanov reported the military working group has reached conclusions on how postwar monitoring would function, including over a demilitarised zone.
- Separately, Bloomberg cited unnamed Russian sources saying Moscow may abandon U.S.-mediated talks unless Ukraine withdraws from Donbas, a claim not confirmed by the Kremlin.
- Those Bloomberg-sourced accounts also described potential Russian acceptance of U.S.-led ceasefire monitoring, a drop of demands on Ukraine’s force size, and no foreign troops on Ukrainian soil.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he issued updated directives to his team, with a trilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi expected in early March subject to security conditions.