War and pics: What are conditions Russia has put forth to end war against Ukraine

Russia has collated a four-point formula to push out NATO, the western military alliance, out of most of the territories that were once a part of the former Soviet Union.

Moscow’s demands include legally binding assurance from the NATO members of no further expansion in the eastern belt of the Erupe that puts Russian borders in jeopardy.

These serve as Vladimir Putin’s conditions to stop the war in Ukraine.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov stressed on Tuesday during a video address to the Conference on Disarmament said that NATO’s legally binding guarantee of no further expansion is their foremost condition to restore peace in Ukraine.

Moscow sought that NATO must, first, abandon the 'Bucharest formula' that the alliance had adopted during its 2008 Bucharest summit.

The Bucharest formula envisions including Ukraine and Georgia in the US-led military bloc.

“Western countries should refrain from establishing military facilities on the territory of former USSR states that are not members of the alliance, including the use of their infrastructure for conducting any military activity,” said the Russian foreign minister.

Russia's third condition is that NATO must follow the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997 which froze the grouping's military capabilities, including strike, and NATO infrastructure to that year, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron after the first round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine that the demilitarisation of Ukraine and Western recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula were prerequisites to ending fighting in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.