Europe seeks revisions to at least four points of US peace plan - Bild
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Germany and other supporters of Ukraine have rejected the US plan to end the war in its current form. The European Union intends to amend at least four of the plan's 28 points, Bild reports.
European leaders are reportedly unimpressed by President Donald Trump's proposals on territorial division, including a point that would require Ukraine to cede the Donbas region to Russia. It is said that the plan will also discuss a proposed reduction of Ukraine's army, which is already smaller than Russia's army.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to signal to Trump that the security guarantees Russia would provide to Ukraine may not be reliable, citing the 1994 agreement when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons but was still attacked by Russia.
Bild also reports that German Finance Minister Christian Merz is particularly irritated by Trump's plan regarding frozen Russian assets. The plan would involve investing $100 billion in the local economy, from which the US would earn 50 percent of the profits, and creating a new US-Russia investment instrument, potentially benefiting Putin further despite his ongoing aggression.
European Council President António Costa has invited EU leaders to a special meeting next Monday focused on Ukraine and the Trump team's peace plan. Costa emphasized that the US plan's 28 points include critical elements necessary for a fair and lasting peace and stated that all 27 EU leaders have been invited to join efforts to ensure sustainable peace at the EU-African Union Summit in Luanda.
Negotiations in Switzerland
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov announced that consultations between Ukraine and the US on the peace plan will take place in Geneva in the coming days, and he shared the list of the Ukrainian delegation. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Kyiv will hold consultations with its partners and that the Ukrainian delegation is prepared to defend the country's interests.
According to CNN, US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and his team arrived in Geneva to meet with senior Ukrainian officials, and tomorrow, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are expected to join the meetings. Other media reports that the talks will also include national security advisors from France, the UK, and Germany.
