US and Ukraine move closer to a peace agreement after significant changes to the 28-point plan.
As Ed pointed out last week, the Trump administration delivered a 28-point peace plan to Ukraine along with some pressure to agree to the plan by Thanksgiving.
By most accounts the plan was a lot more favorable to Russia than to Ukraine. In fact, there was a disagreement over the weekend about what the 28-point plan represented. Was it actually a US plan or was it a Russian wish list? Some Senators claimed they had been told by Sec. Rubio it was the latter.
U.S. lawmakers attempted Saturday to reverse days of confusion around a leaked peace plan for Ukraine, saying Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured them the document does not represent the Trump administration’s position.
Rubio called the bipartisan delegation to the Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday afternoon, they said, while en route to Geneva for talks with Ukrainian officials. He described the plan as a Russian proposal, they said, and not a U.S. initiative.
“He made it very clear to us that we are the recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one of our representatives,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). “It is not our recommendation. It is not our peace plan. It is a proposal that was received, and as an intermediary, we have made arrangements to share it — and we did not release it. It was leaked.”’
But as soon as that story started making the rounds, the State Department denied it. And then Sec. Rubio clarified it himself on X, saying it was a US authored plan but not a final offer.
