Russia Revives Demand That NATO Retrench to Secure Ukraine DealA New York Times article reports that in closed-door talks with President Trump's envoys this week, Russia revived its 2021 demand that NATO pull back to its 1997 borders, in a unsigned paper that also seeks an end to Western arms for Ukraine. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Putin in Moscow before debriefing Zelensky in Dublin, while European leaders like Poland's Donald Tusk rejected the terms as nonstarters.