Trump's Ukraine peace plan built on Russian document – Reuters
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The peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, consisting of 28 points, is based on a document authored by Russia and delivered to the administration of US President Donald Trump in October, according to Reuters.
According to the agency’s sources, in mid-October, the Russians delivered to senior American officials a document that reflected Moscow’s conditions for ending the war. This happened after Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington.
In diplomatic language during informal communication, such working materials are known as "non-papers."
The text provided by the Russians repeated earlier demands they had put forward during negotiations, including concessions that Ukraine had rejected. This refers to a concession, such as giving up a significant part of Ukrainian territory in the east.
Reuters notes that this is the first confirmation that the document delivered by the Russians became a key contribution to the 28-point peace plan.
The White House did not directly comment on the non-paper but noted that Trump was optimistic about progress on the peace plan.
At the same time, it is unclear why the Trump administration took the Russian document as the basis for trying to form its own peace plan.
According to the sources, some senior US officials who reviewed the Russian document, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, believed that Moscow’s demands would likely be categorically rejected by the Ukrainians.
US peace plan
As a reminder, American and Russian officials developed a peace plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
It consists of 28 points and envisions, in particular, transferring part of the Donbas territories to Russia in exchange for granting Ukraine and the EU long-term security guarantees, reducing the Ukrainian army, abandoning long-range weapons, and more.
Earlier, it became known that Russians were likely involved in writing the plan — some strange phrases in the document indicate this. Western media suspected that some of them appeared to have originally been written in Russian.
In addition, Bloomberg published a transcript of a phone conversation between US special representative Steve Witkoff and Russians, during which he advised them on how to promote the peace plan to US President Donald Trump.
On November 23, senior officials from Ukraine and the US met in Geneva to discuss the peace plan. Europeans were also present at the meeting.
After the negotiations, the Financial Times reported that the document had been significantly shortened — from 28 points to 19.
At the same time, Trump stated that the plan still contains 22 points.
