Russia claims to have received US peace plan through unofficial channels
Photo: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Getty Images)
Moscow says it got the US peace plan through unofficial channels. The document has 28 points, and Russia hasn't seen any other versions of it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says.
As usual, the Russian Minister accuses Western countries of attempting, as he put it, to distort US President Donald Trump's plan and undermine his efforts to settle.
He claims that the situation could change if the agreements reached at the summit in Anchorage between Trump and Vladimir Putin are removed from the document.
According to Lavrov, Moscow is allegedly ready to discuss specific wording, but insists on preserving the spirit and letter of the agreements, which, he claims, were recorded in Alaska.
Otherwise, he says, the situation would be fundamentally different.
US peace plan
Donald Trump's team prepared a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, consisting of 28 points, most of which contradict Ukrainian interests.
In particular, the document provided for a reduction in the size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to 600,000, refusal of NATO membership with the inclusion of this in the Constitution and the Alliance Charter, the actual transfer of Donetsk, Luhansk regions, and Crimea to Russia, as well as the recognition of the Russian-occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
After the Geneva talks between the US and Ukrainian delegations, the number of points in the draft plan was reduced from 28 to 19.
As RBC-Ukraine found out, the issues of amnesty and a radical reduction of the Ukrainian army were removed from the plan.
