European leaders issued a rejection towards Russian negotiating demands. 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇷🇺 From the Russian perspective, Finland’s 2023 NATO accession and allied bases in the Baltic states, and the potential future Ukrainian alignment with NATO structures are not neutral developments — they are changes in the military balance that Moscow believes need to be renegotiated now that the war has created a moment of diplomatic motion. European leaders see this differently. For them, any framework that would require Finland to exit NATO, pull allied forces out of the Baltic states, or restrict Ukraine’s membership options is not open to compromise.