Trump’s improved Ukraine peace plan faces rejection from Russia, sparking concerns about prolonged conflict.
The good news: Those who lamented Donald Trump’s 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine have reason to cheer. After news leaked this morning that Ukraine had accepted a newly negotiated version of the plan, the details emerged on the « vastly » improved proposal. Gone were the territorial concessions, and the cap on Ukraine’s military got raised significantly in the new 19-point plan:
A new version of a peace plan worked out between senior Washington and Kyiv delegations is proving more palatable to Ukrainians — and would remove several provisions that were previously described by US officials as “maximalist demands” by Moscow.
The new plan, said to include about 19 points, would nix one of the most controversial provisions of the 28-point plan reported last week — that Ukraine would have to give up territory in the Donbas that Russia has been unable to conquer in more than 11 years of war there, The Post can reveal.
Instead, the issue of territorial claims will be left to President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hammer out at a later date, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
It would also get rid of another sticking point under which Ukraine would have had to promise never to join NATO — a goal Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has sought since before invading the country in 2022.
These address some of the sharpest criticisms of Trump’s original 28-point plan. Those provisions sparked outrage among supporters of Ukraine in both parties, claiming that it amounted to appeasement of Vladimir Putin. The issue of NATO membership in the original plan was mainly countered with the security guarantees in the first plan, which called for direct US and European engagement in the event of a new Russian invasion, guarantees that were more explicit than in the 1993 Budapest Memo that had left enough ambiguity that the Biden administration had felt comfortable in refusing to order troops into Ukraine.
