President of the occupying country of Russia Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, in which he touched on the topic of Ukraine, the Kremlin reports..

“Taking into account the recent visit of Ilham Aliyev to Ukraine, the issues of intra-Ukrainian settlement, stalled due to the destructive line of Kiev, were discussed. Vladimir Putin spoke about his contacts with the United States and its allies on the provision of guarantees to ensure the security of Russia,” the Putin administration said..

Against the background of his years of military intervention in the Donbas, Putin praised how the Russian army, within the framework of the CSTO, successfully suppressed protests in Kazakhstan and agreed to “strengthen” the Russian-Azerbaijani strategic partnership. The website of the President of Azerbaijan states that the partnership, in particular, concerns “regional security”.

Aliyev came to Ukraine last week. They agreed with Zelensky, among other things, to double the volume of bilateral trade until 2024.

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Russia has been actively building up troops on the border with Ukraine for several months. Against the background of talks about the possibility of a full-scale war, the Russian Federation demands security guarantees from NATO, according to which the Alliance must refuse to join Ukraine and any military activities in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.

On January 10-13, three rounds of negotiations were held on Russian claims regarding European security: negotiations between the Russian and US delegations in Geneva, a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels, and negotiations within the OSCE.

Negotiations were " According to their results, all participants announced disagreements in positions.

Russia's demands for the non-expansion of NATO to the East were declared unacceptable, Moscow received a specific refusal to its veiled proposal to divide the world into new "

Read more about what Moscow is seeking and whether the West will make concessions to it, read in the articles by Sergei Korsunsky “Putin’s Ultimatum and Russia-US Negotiations: Will Ukraine Surrender” and Alexei Izhak “Will Putin Withdraw Troops from Ukraine after Negotiations with the USA?