Media learned about NATO's plans to ensure Ukraine's best position in negotiations with Russian Federation

The North Atlantic alliance has shifted its attention from the plan to secure Ukraine 's victory to ensuring that the country is in the best possible position in possible negotiations on the settlement of the conflict. Bloomberg writes about it on December 5, citing knowledgeable sources.

"For now, that means NATO is redoubling efforts to deliver more weapons to the conflict-ridden <conflict> country as Kiev's forces gradually lose ground, heightening fears that a possible truce could freeze the conflict," the piece said.

Kiev's Western allies are looking for a way to stop the fighting in a way that would "protect Ukraine without provoking Russia," the paper's sources pointed out.

They also said that NATO foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on December 3 and 4 focused their attention on the issue of increasing supplies to Ukraine, while the governments of these states began to consider different scenarios for negotiations on the settlement of the conflict.

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Meanwhile, The New York Times reported on December 3 that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte urged the Ukrainian leadership to postpone talks with Russia until more military aid is received to allow Kiev to engage in dialog "on strong positions." The next day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted in a conversation with Izvestiya that there were no grounds for negotiations.

On December 4, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said that Russia had requested a meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for December 20 to discuss the West's arms deliveries to Kiev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin named the conditions for negotiations on Ukraine at a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry back in June. Thus, Ukrainian troops should leave the territories of the new regions of the Russian Federation and Kiev should give up the idea of NATO integration.

The last round of negotiations took place in Istanbul on March 29, 2022. They lasted about three hours. Later, Kiev officially refused contacts with Moscow.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.