The US
President Trump has said the plan does not represent a “final offer” for Ukraine, having previously said President Volodymyr Zelensky “will have to” approve it.
Ukraine
When details of the plan first emerged, Zelensky warned that his country faced “one of the most difficult moments in our history” over US pressure to accept it.
On Saturday, Zelensky announced that the head of his office, Andriy Yermak, would lead Ukraine’s negotiating team for future talks on a peace deal – including any that may involve Russia.
In Kyiv, the widow of a Ukrainian soldier told the BBC: “This is not a peace plan, it is a plan to continue the war.”
Ukraine’s allies
In a joint statement issued at the G20 summit in South Africa yesterday, a number of Ukraine’s Western allies said the proposal “would leave Ukraine vulnerable to attack”.
Russia
When the plan was leaked, Russian President Vladimir Putin said it could form the “basis” of an agreement.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: “We are seeing some new elements, but officially we haven’t received anything. There has been no substantive discussion of those points.”
What’s in the 28-point peace plan?published at 00:2100:21
The draft US-Russia peace plan has been widely leaked. Here’s what else we know about what’s included:
- It proposes to hand over areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region still under Ukrainian control to the de facto control of Vladimir Putin’s Russia
- The draft proposes that “Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk will be recognised as de facto Russian, including by the United States”
- It calls for Ukraine to cut the size of its armed forces to 600,000 people
- Ukraine to sign in its constitution that it won’t join Nato, and Nato to commit to not allowing Ukraine to join in the future
- Bring back Russia from isolation – “to be re-integrated into the global economy” and invited back into G8
- Frozen Russian worth assets worth $100bn (£76.46bn) should be invested “in US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine” – with the US receiving 50% of the profits and Europe adding $100bn in investment for reconstruction.
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