Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, a day after Donald Trump won the election and became US president-elect, said the West should recognize that Russia is winning the war in Ukraine and should negotiate an end to it.

Russian forces are advancing at the fastest pace since the start of the two-year conflict, Shoigu says.

Trump claimed during the election campaign that he could bring peace to Ukraine within 24 hours, but did not provide many details on how he would achieve this. Shoigu, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin who served as defense minister until May this year, said the West had tried to use Ukraine to strategically defeat Russia but had failed.

"Now, when the situation on the military front is not in favor of the regime in Kiev, the West is faced with a choice - to continue to finance Ukraine and destroy its people, or to recognize the current reality and start negotiations," Shoigu said.

On June 14, Putin laid out his terms for ending the war: Ukraine should abandon its ambitions to join NATO and withdraw its troops from all territories in the four regions that Moscow claims are under its control.

Russia currently controls Crimea, which it unilaterally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, then about 80% of the Donbass – an area that includes the Donetsk and Luhansk regions – as well as more than 70% of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

Trump's different perspective on the war in Ukraine

Ukraine, which has the support of the United States and European countries, rejected Putin's terms. However, Trump said he has different priorities compared to current President Joe Biden, who stressed that Ukraine should decide when and how to negotiate.

Kiev's official position remains that it will not stop until every Russian soldier leaves the territory of Ukraine.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's transition team proposed the option of Kiev pledging not to join NATO for the next 20 years in exchange for long-range US weapons to deter Russian attacks.

Russia said it would not comment on media reports until it saw concrete details of any plan. The Kremlin reacted cautiously to Trump's election victory, calling the US an "enemy state" and stressing that time will tell whether Trump's rhetoric about ending the war will lead to real action.

Reuters reported in May that Putin was ready to end the war through negotiations and agree to the battle lines that currently exist, but indicated that he was prepared to continue fighting if Kiev and the West did not respond to the talks.