28-Point Peace Proposal for Ukraine
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset (Telegraph)
Krasnov delivers: U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support (Washington Post)
Two people familiar with the situation said on Friday that the American side had “signalled” to Kyiv that vital US intelligence and weapons deliveries could be halted if Zelenskyy did not sign up to the proposal. (Fin.Times)
All available reporting continues to indicate that the stipulations of the reported 28-point Russia-US peace plan amount to Ukraine’s full capitulation to Russia’s original war demands. (ISW)
The plan calls on Ukraine to make enormous concessions, including handing over territory to Russia that Ukraine currently controls. But rather than reject it outright, Zelensky agreed to negotiate — and his office said he expects to discuss it with President Trump in the coming days. (Axios)
The Trump administration has been secretly coordinating with Moscow on a new plan to end the war in Ukraine, an initiative that has expanded into a series of discreet meetings and draft proposals as Washington probes the conditions under which a political settlement could be considered.
Axios, a US-based digital news outlet known for its political and national security scoops, reported that the 28-point proposal is structured around four themes: achieving peace in Ukraine, providing security guarantees, broader European security, and the future of US relations with both Russia and Ukraine. The blueprint is said to take inspiration from US President Donald Trump’s recent efforts to secure a deal in Gaza.
According to the source, a senior Russian official said he was “optimistic” about the plan’s chances and claimed it reflects Moscow’s positions more accurately than previous diplomatic initiatives. It remains unclear how Kyiv or its European partners will respond.
Contentious issues such as territorial control in eastern Ukraine are still unresolved, Axios noted, even as Russian forces continue slow advances that fall short of the Kremlin’s maximalist territorial demands.
Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, has been leading the drafting effort and has held extensive talks with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, who is also deeply involved in Kremlin diplomacy over Ukraine.
Kyiv Post
The document appears to have been written in Russian first, then translated into English
Not speculation. Linguistic evidence (Daily Kos)
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President Trump dispatched a high-level Pentagon delegation to Kyiv for talks Wednesday in the administration’s latest attempt to revive negotiations on halting Russia’s war with Ukraine, according to senior U.S. officials.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, along with two four-star Army generals, was scheduled to hold discussions with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials, as well as top military and industry representatives, two of the officials said. Driscoll is planning to meet with Russian officials at a later date.
Wall Street Journal.Kaja Kallas, The European Union's top diplomat has warned President Donald Trump that Europe and Ukraine need to support a peace deal with Russia for it to work. (Newsweek)Now is the moment for Europe to do everything it can to support Ukraine (Telegraph)
Editor's commentIt's a silly repeat of an old game. Ukraine and Europe will reject a deal drafted to please Russia. Trump will be upset that his deal is rejected and will punish Ukraine (and Europe?) for not accepting his marvellous "deal". Russia will be happy to again see Ukraine (and Europe) in the doghouse. Krasnov has delivered. Again.“Europe is experiencing its last year of peace”:
the warning from Andrei Kozovoi, Russia specialist. His grandmother inspired the character of Lara in “Doctor Zhivago,” and his parents met in the gulag. Today, the professor at the University of Lille is pessimistic and insists that“as long as Putin is alive, Russia will refuse to give in”... Now a professor at the University of Lille, this specialist in Russian and Soviet history is very pessimistic about the war in Ukraine, while insisting that Vladimir Putin suffers from an inferiority complex.