{"id":362727,"date":"2025-12-22T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362727\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:10:15","slug":"russia-criticises-european-moves-to-amend-us-plan-to-end-ukraine-war-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362727\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia criticises European moves to amend US plan to end Ukraine war | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s top foreign policy aide says that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to the United States\u2019s proposals for an end to Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine do not improve the prospects for peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or are trying to make definitely do not improve the document and do not improve the possibility of achieving long-term peace,\u201d Yury Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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The US-drafted proposals for an end to the nearly four-year \u2060war, leaked to the media last month, raised European and Ukrainian concerns that they favour more of Russia\u2019s wartime demands, \u200band that US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration could push Kyiv into conceding too much.<\/p>\n

Since then, European and \u200dUkrainian negotiators have met with Trump\u2019s envoys in an attempt to add their own proposals to the US draft, though the exact contents of the amended proposal have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n

Ushakov\u2019s remarks came after Putin\u2019s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, met in Florida<\/a> on Saturday with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Dmitriev said the talks would continue \u200bon Sunday.<\/p>\n

The US officials have also been holding talks in Miami with European and Ukrainian officials since Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last three days in Florida, the Ukrainian delegation held a series of productive and constructive meetings with American and European partners,\u201d Witkoff wrote \u200din a social \u2060media post on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He said the talks focused on four key points: further development of the US 20-point plan, a multilateral security guarantee framework, a US security guarantee framework for Ukraine, and further development on economics and \u200bprosperity to rebuild Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Negotiators focused especially on \u201ctimelines\u201d and the \u201csequencing of next steps\u201d, Witkoff said.<\/p>\n

He did not mention the talks with the Russian officials.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his team should hold more talks with European allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a shared sense that after the work by our diplomatic team in the United States, we should now hold consultations with European partners in a broader circle,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a post on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Three-way talks?<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy had said on Saturday that Ukraine \u200cwould back a US proposal for three-way talks with the US and Russia if it facilitated more exchanges of prisoners.<\/p>\n

Ushakov \u200csaid that a proposal for three-way talks had not been seriously discussed by \u2060anyone, and that it was not being worked on.<\/p>\n

Russia says that European leaders are intent on scuttling the talks by introducing conditions that they know will be unacceptable to Russia, which took 12-17 square kilometres (4.6 to 6.6 square miles) of Ukrainian territory per day in 2025.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian and European leaders say that Russia cannot \u200cbe allowed to achieve its aims in what they say is an imperial-style land grab.<\/p>\n

Ukraine battles attempted Russian breakthrough<\/p>\n

In Ukraine, fighting continues<\/a>, with the Ukrainian army battling an attempted Russian breakthrough in the Sumy region, the Ukrainian military said on Sunday, following reports that Moscow forcibly moved 50 people from a border village there.<\/p>\n

This marks a renewed Russian advance in the part of the region previously largely spared from intense ground fighting since Ukraine regained land there in a swift 2022 counter-offensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cFighting is currently ongoing in the village of Hrabovske,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s joint task force said, adding the troops were \u201cmaking efforts to drive the occupiers back into Russian territory\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said that, over the week, \u201cRussia has launched approximately 1,300 attack drones, nearly 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and nine missiles of various types\u201d against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after eight years of fighting in the country\u2019s east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s top foreign policy aide says that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1076,3,1206,963,1208,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-362727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-europe","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}