What are the key Russian demands in war with Ukraine; know 5 points

While the international community has announced several stringent measures to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has hit back saying, its key security demands have not been made by the West, especially the US that could have avoided the bloodshed. 

Moscow: Russia's invasion of Ukraine has entered its seventh day on Wednesday, with a huge deployment of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles surrounding the capital, Kyiv, and heavy shelling there and in other big cities.

While the international community has announced several stringent measures to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has hit back saying, its key security demands have not been made by the West, especially the US that could have avoided the bloodshed. 

What are the key Russian demands in the war with Ukraine?

In his first public comments since December about the brewing Russia-Ukraine crisis, Putin slammed the US and the West for not meeting his key demands to avoid a full-scale military conflict with Ukraine that has now threatened European security. Russia’s Foreign Ministry had released the eight-point draft treaty in December last year along with a warning that "ignoring its interests would lead to a “military response” similar to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

1. Russian leader put forward a highly contentious list of security guarantees that Moscow wants the West to agree to in order to lower tensions in Europe and defuse the crisis over Ukraine. In a joint news conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán following their meeting in the Kremlin, Putin said that the West has ignored Russia's demands that NATO not expand to Ukraine and other ex-Soviet countries.