Putin Doubles Down on Demands as U.S. and Ukrainian Talks Intensify

Ukrainian negotiators were set to meet with European officials in Brussels, and later US officials in Florida, days after a five-hour Kremlin meeting with a visiting White House delegation where President Vladimir Putin doubled down on his hard-line conditions to end the war on Ukraine. Ahead of the December 4 meetings, Putin repeated longstanding and unbending demands on Ukraine’s sovereignty and military force in an interview with India Today. "It all comes down to this: Either we liberate these territories by force or Ukrainian troops…