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BBC World Service - Newshour, Europe Warns Against US-Russia Peace Plan for Ukraine
The 28-point proposal demands Ukraine reduce its military by half, cede parts of Donbas, and adopt Russian as an official language in exchange for U.S. security guarantees.
- Earlier this week, U.S. and Russian officials privately drafted a 28-point plan requiring Kyiv to cede parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev shaping it as President Donald Trump backed the proposal.
- U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff has spent the past month shaping the plan via backchannels with Kirill Dmitriev, excluding European partners and Ukraine, reports said.
- Requiring Kyiv to withdraw from unoccupied Donetsk and Luhansk, the plan would cap Ukraine's Armed Forces at 50 percent, bar foreign troops as peacekeepers and prevent foreign long‑range weapons.
- Kyiv has received the draft and President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to discuss it with President Donald Trump, while a Ukrainian advocacy group called the plan a 'capitulation' and the Institute for the Study of War warned it would strip Ukraine of critical defenses.
- Independent inquiries document abuses by Moscow's forces, raising human-rights concerns if territory is ceded, while Vladimir Putin, President of Russia's legal changes cast doubt on guarantees and a rental fee arrangement ties Donbas control to U.S. officials' pledged non-attack assurances.
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