According to him, the United States and Ukrainians “have developed a new working document” and “in this new plan all points relating to the European Union have been removed.” In addition, “everything related to NATO has also been seized,” Costa added.
As the head of the European Council pointed out, the United States “undertook not to discuss EU or NATO issues” in negotiations with the Russian Federation regarding peace in Ukraine “without involving the Europeans.”
According to Costa, if the international community allows a large country to forcefully change the borders and territory of another state, then this will be “a very dangerous precedent for the world.”
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Bloomberg wrote that the 28-point plan, which was agreed upon by US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin's special representative 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, the demand to refuse to become a NATO member is unacceptable for Ukraine.
On November 25, Trump expressed the opinion that agreements to resolve the war of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation against Ukraine are very close.
