Envoys from the Government of Donald Trump and of Vladimir Putin They are secretly negotiating 28 point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, as reported this Wednesday by various media outlets such as Axios or Politico.
A peace plan negotiated behind the backs of Zelensky and the European Union and that, according to several of the points that have emerged, it would imply a severe setback for kyiv by assume in practice its surrendern after more than three and a half years of conflict.
These negotiations have been revealed on the same day that Moscow carried out the deadliest attack on Ukrainian soil since last June, killing 25 civilians, including three children, in a bombing that hit two apartment blocks in the city of Ternopil in western Ukraine.
According to what has emerged, the Trump and Putin peace plan, which Washington has expressly demanded that Zelensky accept, includes what Ukraine gives up both territory and weapons, as well as carries out a reduction of its Army in half.
Specifically, the peace plan includes delivery of the Donbas regionincluding the territory controlled by kyiv. This condition is unacceptable for kyiv at a time when Russian forces control approximately 19% of Ukrainian territory and are advancing slowly, while carrying out frequent attacks on energy infrastructure as winter approaches.
Also proposes reducing the Ukrainian Army by halfstop receiving American military aidparalyze the use of certain weapons, recognize Russian as the official language of the State and grant official status to the local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
A Ukrainian soldier at a military training near the front line in the Zaporizhia region.
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The plan, in the development of which neither Ukraine nor its European partners have participated, has been negotiated by President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Russia and the Middle East, Steve Witkoffwith the Kremlin emissary Kiril Dmitriev. Both met in Miami for several days, between October 24 and 26.
According to the newspaper Financial Timesthe draft of this plan was sent this week to Ukraine by Witkoff, who also met in Miami with the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov.
Precisely, this Wednesday the Reuters agency announced that Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogghas informed his collaborators that he plans to leave the Administration in January. His Exit would mean the loss of a key defender of Ukraine in the Trump Administration.
A favorable plan for Moscow
From Ukraine they have already denounced that this peace plan conforms to the Kremlin’s “maximalist demands” and that it will not be possible to carry it out if there are no substantial changes in the country.
Putin has not moved at any time from his demands: has long demanded that kyiv give up its plans to join NATO and withdraw its troops from the four provinces annexed by Moscow (Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia).
Moscow has given no sign of having withdrawn any of these demands and Zelensky has always defended that he will not accept them.
Aerial view of apartment buildings destroyed and damaged by Russian military attacks in the border town of Kostiantynivka, on November 12.
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The Trump Administration sources cited by Axios Sign isThe White House has already informed its European allies about the new plan in which work is being done with Moscow.
In Washington, the optimism about the possibility of its allies joining this effort with its proposals and that ultimately leads to the resolution of the war in Ukraine.
Deadliest attack in months
However, there have been no face-to-face talks between kyiv and Moscow since the meeting in Istanbul in July, and Russian forces have continued their attacks, causing in the last day death of 25 people in the city of Ternopil.
Another 73 people, including 15 children, were injured in the attack on two blocks of flats, the deadliest since the one carried out on June 17 over the Ukrainian capital that causedl least 28 dead and more than 130 injured.
As reported from Ternopil by the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior, Igor Klimenkotwo Russian missiles They hit two residential blocks in the city at 7:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday.
In the early hours of Tuesday to Wednesday, Russia launched more than four hundred drones and about fifty missiles, directed against regions throughout Ukraine.
Western Ukraine was among the main targets of the bombing, which caused new damage to energy infrastructure from several Ukrainian regions.
Polanda member of NATO and bordering western Ukraine, was forced to temporarily close Rzeszow and Lublin airportsin the southeast of the country, and has mobilized Polish and allied aircraft as a precautionary measure to safeguard its airspace.