According to them, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky received signals from Washington that he should agree to an agreement developed in consultation with Moscow.
The plan also proposes other concessions, in particular limiting the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial concessions in the Donbass.
On November 20, Zelensky held a meeting in Kyiv with Pentagon representatives amid publications about a new peace plan.
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Media reported Nov. 19 that Trump this week endorsed a 28-point plan to “achieve peace” between aggressor Russia and Ukraine that his team has been quietly developing in consultation with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev over the past few weeks. According to Axios, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff held three days of talks with Dmitriev on this issue in late October.
On November 19, Politico journalist Dasha (Christina) Burns said that the White House is “about” to unveil a peace agreement with the aggressor country Russia, which will end the full-scale war in Ukraine. Citing a senior Trump administration official, she said that “all parties” intend to agree on the framework for a peace settlement “by the end of this month” and possibly “as early as this week.”
Burns considers part of the approval of the plan the visit of the Pentagon delegation to Kyiv, as well as Zelensky’s trip to negotiations with Turkish President Recep Erdogan in Istanbul.
Western media published some details of the proposal. Among them is granting the status of the state language to the Russian language; media sources also claim that, according to the plan, the United States may recognize the occupied Donbass and Crimea as Russian, and Ukraine will be required to reduce the size of the army by half. FT wrote that this means the capitulation of Ukraine and that the agreement is very convenient for the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv will not agree to it, there will be no “peace agreement” this week, says the publication’s journalist Christopher Miller. The Wall Street Journal added that we are talking about Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO “for at least several years” and a ban on the deployment of international peacekeeping forces on the country’s territory.
