The Kremlin's latest statements contradict several of the positions that Trump presented as the basis for ending the war. The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected security guarantees for Ukraine offered by Europe.
This is stated in the daily analysis of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Kremlin officials also called for any future peace agreement to meet Russia's demands that NATO stop its expansion and pull back its borders.
Ushakov reported that Putin used his conversation with Trump to lay out "very detailed arguments" on the importance of upholding the agreements that the US and Russia reached at the Alaska summit in August 2025.
Kremlin officials claim that the Alaska summit agreed on principles based on Putin’s speech to the Russian Foreign Ministry (MFA) in June 2024, in which Putin demanded that Ukraine and NATO submit to Russia’s initial military demands.
Putin also referred to his 2024 MFA speech during a meeting with Russian military commanders on December 27.
ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin’s statements show that Russia’s goals in Ukraine go beyond territorial demands, such as seizing the Donetsk region, and that a peace agreement that does not meet Russian demands on NATO and the West outside of Ukraine will neither satisfy Russia nor lead to a lasting peace that normalizes Russian-European or Russian-American relations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior Russian military commanders continue to exaggerate tactical details to create the false impression that Ukraine's frontline defenses are on the verge of collapse.
On December 27, Putin met with the leadership of the Russian General Staff and force group commanders - the latest in a series of public meetings between Putin and his commanders in recent weeks.
The Kremlin likely scheduled the meeting on the eve of the December 28 meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Florida to influence the US-Ukraine meeting.
Putin, the Chief of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, and the commanders made a series of probably exaggerated claims about Russian successes on the battlefield.
The US and Ukrainian delegations met in Florida on the 28th December to discuss the latest 20-point peace plan between the United States, Ukraine and Europe, as well as other documents related to a potential peace agreement.
Donald Trump said that since the US-Ukraine meeting, he and Zelensky have spoken with leaders of Europe, NATO and the EU.
Trump said that several issues remain unresolved, including territorial issues related to Donbas and a possible ceasefire so that Ukraine can hold a referendum on a future peace agreement.
Trump said that the issue of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was discussed in detail during the meeting and that Ukraine and Russia are working together to reopen the plant. Zelensky said the parties had almost reached an agreement on a 20-point peace plan and a document between the United States, Ukraine and Europe on guarantees for Ukraine's security.
Zelensky said the parties had finalized "100 percent" another document between Ukraine and the US on security guarantees.
Zelensky noted that discussions are ongoing on a plan to ensure Ukraine's economic prosperity after the war.
ISW has monitored recent open source data to estimate that Ukrainian forces maintain a presence in Rodynske and that Russian forces have operated in less than half of Mirnograd.
ISW has monitored only open source data to estimate that Russian forces have operated in about 55% of Khulyaypole.
Russia appears to be increasing the complexity of its cognitive warfare efforts, using flag-raising to achieve informational impact.
Putin's meeting with military commanders gave a platform to tactical commanders on the ground, in an attempt to lend credence to the Russian military command's exaggerated claims.
Putin and Russian military commanders continue to discuss the need for creating "buffer zones" in areas of Ukraine outside the four regions that Russia illegally annexed in 2022.
Russian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk and Khulyaypole.