More details are emerging from a 28-point peace plan backed by United States President Donald Trump aimed at ending Russia’s four-year war on Ukraine, with several media outlets and officials confirming that the plan, which has yet to be officially published, appears to favour Russia.
Details of the plan also come after US ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, told the UN Security Council on Thursday afternoon that the US had offered “generous terms for Russia, including sanctions relief”.
“The United States has invested at the highest levels, the president of the United States personally, to end this war,” Waltz told the council.
The AFP news agency reported on Friday that the plan, which the US views as a “working document”, says that “Crimea, Lugansk [Luhansk] and Donetsk will be recognised as de facto Russian, including by the United States”.
This corresponds with an earlier report from US media outlet Axios.
The Associated Press (AP) news agency also reported on Friday that the plan would require Ukraine to surrender the Donbas, which includes the Luhansk and Donetsk regions that Ukraine currently partly holds.
Under the draft, Moscow would hold all the eastern Donbas region, even though approximately 14 percent still remains in Ukrainian hands, AP reported.
AFP and AP also confirmed Axios’s earlier report that the plan would require Ukraine to limit the size of its military.
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Ukraine would give up a swathe of eastern territory to Russia and slash the size of its army under a sweeping 28-point peace plan backed by US President Donald Trump, according to a draft obtained by AFP.
ReplyDeleteKyiv would also pledge never to join NATO, and would not get the Western peacekeepers they have called for, although European warplanes would be stationed in Poland to protect Ukraine.
A US official told AFP the draft plan includes a powerful security guarantee for Kyiv, modeled on NATO rules, which would commit the US and European allies to respond to any attack on Ukraine.
Russia would meanwhile be readmitted to the G8 group of nations and be integrated back into the global economy under the plan, which US officials said was still a "working document."
Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been "quietly" working on the plan with both Russia and Ukraine for around a month, Leavitt said.
ReplyDeleteShe rejected concerns that the plan echoes many of Moscow's maximalist demands.
The authorities of Ukraine explain US President Donald Trump’s pressure by his determination to make Kiev sign the peace plan as quickly as possible, Financial Times wrote citing Ukrainian officials.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the report, US officials expect Zelensky to sign the document, drafted jointly with Russia, until November 27.
The document also states that Ukraine’s “Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant will be commissioned under [UN nuclear agency] IAEA supervision, and the electricity generated will be shared equally between Russia and Ukraine in a 50:50 ratio”.
ReplyDeleteБелый дом подтвердил, что госсекретарь Марко Рубио и спецпосланник президента США в равной степени взаимодействуют с Россией и Украиной по мирному плану, отметила пресс-секретарь Белого дома Каролин Левитт.
ReplyDelete"Это хороший план и для Украины, и для России. Я думаю, он должен быть приемлемым для обеих сторон", - сказала она.
США введут новые санкции, если решат, что Москва якобы не реагирует на призывы о прекращении огня в украинском конфликте, заявил постпред США при ООН Майк Уолц.
ReplyDelete"Лидеры России и Украины должны вести переговоры. Россия и Украина должны согласиться на прекращение огня", - сказал он на заседании Совбеза ООН по Украине.