“Therefore, we must clearly state: the unilateral dismemberment of a sovereign European state is unacceptable, and borders cannot be changed by force. If today we legitimize and formalize the undermining of borders, tomorrow it will open the door to new wars. And we cannot allow this,” the EC President emphasized.
According to von de Leyen, US President Donald Trump's peaceful efforts to resolve Russia's war against Ukraine could become a “starting point.”
“So far we have not seen any signs of Russia’s real readiness to end this conflict. Therefore, we must continue to put pressure on the Russian Federation. But our responsibility is also to make every effort that can lead to a just and lasting peace. We know that this is not easy. But we must find a way to move forward,” the President of the European Commission concluded.
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Bloomberg wrote that the 28-point plan, which was agreed upon by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and the special representative of the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin on investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, was not accepted, because it had many contradictory aspects.
After a response from Ukraine and European partners during negotiations in Geneva on November 23, the Russian-American document was changed, reducing it to 19 provisions. The White House released a statement after the negotiations that the amended draft peace agreement reflects Ukraine's national interests.
The White House said on November 25 that the United States had made “tremendous progress” towards a peace agreement by inviting Ukraine and the aggressor country of the Russian Federation to the negotiating table. They noted that “there are several delicate, but not insurmountable, details that need to be resolved” and “which will require further negotiations between Ukraine, Russia and the United States.” Thus, CNN named three key points of the “peace plan” on which there is still no agreement between Ukraine and the United States. In particular, no decision has yet been made on the sensitive issue of whether Ukraine should cede territories that the occupying country of the Russian Federation called its own but did not seize.
