A Kyiv Post report says Vladimir Putin, meeting US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin on Nov. 12, 2026, rejected any foreign troops in Ukraine as "legitimate military targets," refused demilitarized zones, and revived Moscow's December 2021 ultimatums to roll back NATO. The Institute for the Study of War assesses he has not budged from maximal territorial and security demands, while the Coalition of the Willing began its KOALICJA 26.2 exercise testing a post-ceaseforce reassurance force and Zelensky said the next talks would focus on ceasefires.