Kyiv reportedly sent an updated plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine to the White House on Wednesday evening.
AFP cited two unnamed Ukrainian officials “with knowledge of the matter” as their source for the information, although they shared no details about its contents.
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In late November, the details of a 28-point plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine drafted by US and Russian officials leaked to the press. In its original form, it would have seen Ukraine forswear NATO membership, limit the size of its armed forces, and cede territory Moscow has thus far been unable to win on the battlefield.
Ukrainian and European diplomats drafted a version of the plan with terms less unilaterally favorable to Russia. Despite US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner traveling to Moscow to discuss it with Russian President Vladimir Putin in person, the Kremlin did not accept the revised terms.
The contents of Ukraine’s latest proposal, which is now said to have been delivered to Washington, are unknown. However, President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists on Dec. 9 that it takes the form of three key documents.
One document serves as a general, 20-point framework for peace; another concerns security guarantees; and the last focuses on Ukraine’s postwar economic recovery.
Zelensky said on Wednesday that talks with US officials (including Kushner, Trump’s treasury secretary, and billionaire BlackRock CEO Larry Fink) about the latter document had been “productive.”
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Zelensky is scheduled to attend a virtual summit of the Coalition of the Willing – a group of more than 30, predominantly European countries willing to provide Ukraine with security guarantees – on Thursday afternoon.
French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz held a call of their own with Trump on Wednesday morning. As per AFP, Trump told journalists on Wednesday evening that they “discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words.”
“We had some little disputes about people, and we’re going to see how it turns out,” Trump said.
He also said he had not yet decided whether or not to take European leaders up on their proposal of another round of meetings with Ukraine in Europe – on the grounds that “we don’t want to be wasting time.”
The Trump administration has yet to confirm that it has received Ukraine’s peace proposal.