US RUSSIAN PEACE DEAL UPDATED
Trump’s ‘Munich’ agreement is nothing but Russian demands. The world must reject it.
By Paul Wallis
EDITOR AT LARGE
DIGITAL JOURNAL
November 21, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Hungary to stop blocking Kyiv's bid to join the EU - Copyright AFP Tetiana DZHAFAROVA
No true American president would even consider lackey status to a foreign country, let alone be a mere errand boy. Russian threats would have been met with force.
The shameful, delusional, cowardly acceptance by the Trump administration of all Russian demands in this so-called “peace deal” really is the end.
This obscenity disqualifies the US as the nominal leader of the free world. In conjunction with the instructions from the Trump administration to cease countering Russian cyber espionage earlier this year, it’s a rap sheet of pro-Russian actions.
There’s a very ugly precedent to this situation. The last time a country was divided by third parties like this, World War 2 happened a year later. The Munich Agreement in 1938 effectively guaranteed war when Hitler tried to isolate Poland in 1939.
The 28 points of this one-sided grovelling exercise didn’t even include Ukraine in the negotiations. There were no actual negotiations
There is absolutely nothing in it for Ukraine, now or in the future.
Nobody can speak for Ukraine better than Ukraine. I remember Zelensky’s talk to the Australian Parliament about rebuilding the dream when the war started.That dream must live.
The world doesn’t have to accept any such agreement.
The world has spoken with sanctions and arms for Ukraine. It has condemned all of Russia’s actions since 2014. The intolerable threat of nuclear war by Russia cannot be tolerated or forgiven. The insane aggression and crimes against humanity cannot go unpunished or unchallenged.
This is the official situation:
The world recognizes only the 1991 borders of Ukraine, guaranteed by the US and Russia.
That’s it. That’s the whole story.
There are, however, other elements in play in this grotesque melodrama.
Ukraine doesn’t have to agree to anything at all, especially an “agreement” based on negotiations upon which it wasn’t even consulted.
November 21, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Hungary to stop blocking Kyiv's bid to join the EU - Copyright AFP Tetiana DZHAFAROVA
No true American president would even consider lackey status to a foreign country, let alone be a mere errand boy. Russian threats would have been met with force.
The shameful, delusional, cowardly acceptance by the Trump administration of all Russian demands in this so-called “peace deal” really is the end.
This obscenity disqualifies the US as the nominal leader of the free world. In conjunction with the instructions from the Trump administration to cease countering Russian cyber espionage earlier this year, it’s a rap sheet of pro-Russian actions.
There’s a very ugly precedent to this situation. The last time a country was divided by third parties like this, World War 2 happened a year later. The Munich Agreement in 1938 effectively guaranteed war when Hitler tried to isolate Poland in 1939.
The 28 points of this one-sided grovelling exercise didn’t even include Ukraine in the negotiations. There were no actual negotiations
There is absolutely nothing in it for Ukraine, now or in the future.
Nobody can speak for Ukraine better than Ukraine. I remember Zelensky’s talk to the Australian Parliament about rebuilding the dream when the war started.That dream must live.
The world doesn’t have to accept any such agreement.
The world has spoken with sanctions and arms for Ukraine. It has condemned all of Russia’s actions since 2014. The intolerable threat of nuclear war by Russia cannot be tolerated or forgiven. The insane aggression and crimes against humanity cannot go unpunished or unchallenged.
This is the official situation:
The world recognizes only the 1991 borders of Ukraine, guaranteed by the US and Russia.
That’s it. That’s the whole story.
There are, however, other elements in play in this grotesque melodrama.
Ukraine doesn’t have to agree to anything at all, especially an “agreement” based on negotiations upon which it wasn’t even consulted.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to offer ‘alternatives’ to US leader Donald Trump on ending the war – Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File TASOS KATOPODIS
The world doesn’t have to recognize any such agreement.
Ukraine could repudiate the rare earths agreement. The world will buy from Ukraine.
Aid from Europe and most of the rest of the world will continue.
If this is the only way Russia can even pretend to “win” this war, they must be desperate. Claims of success are always hollow.
The Russian military has disgraced its heritage and the Russian people. In 1812 and 1941, they were just defenders of their homeland. Now they’re just criminals living off the enlistment bonuses of the dead
This isn’t the famous and ferocious Red Army. It’s a Russian doll. Each doll is smaller. It’s Afghanistan cubed. Domestically, it’s been a catastrophe.
They can’t even manage their own people. When Prigozhin marched on Moscow, the response was to put up crowd control barriers. Last year, they couldn’t even control a Ukrainian incursion into Russia at Kursk. The North Koreans have had no impact except disastrous losses to themselves.
From the American perspective, it’s a very different matter. The inevitable severe political backlash against Trump will require an unequivocal reset of foreign relations. Illegal conduct by officials acting on behalf of a foreign power may also be under scrutiny.
A recognizable America, not this whining beggar at the Kremlin’s gates, will have to return.
Ukraine will have to say no. That will have to be the end of this cretinous charade.
When the Russians invaded, my comment was that the past was invading the future.
The past will never beat the future.
Freedom, freiheit, svoboda, liberte, in any language, that’s the real victory.
Slava Ukraine!
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in this Op-Ed are those of the author. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of the Digital Journal or its members.
The world doesn’t have to recognize any such agreement.
Ukraine could repudiate the rare earths agreement. The world will buy from Ukraine.
Aid from Europe and most of the rest of the world will continue.
If this is the only way Russia can even pretend to “win” this war, they must be desperate. Claims of success are always hollow.
The Russian military has disgraced its heritage and the Russian people. In 1812 and 1941, they were just defenders of their homeland. Now they’re just criminals living off the enlistment bonuses of the dead
This isn’t the famous and ferocious Red Army. It’s a Russian doll. Each doll is smaller. It’s Afghanistan cubed. Domestically, it’s been a catastrophe.
They can’t even manage their own people. When Prigozhin marched on Moscow, the response was to put up crowd control barriers. Last year, they couldn’t even control a Ukrainian incursion into Russia at Kursk. The North Koreans have had no impact except disastrous losses to themselves.
From the American perspective, it’s a very different matter. The inevitable severe political backlash against Trump will require an unequivocal reset of foreign relations. Illegal conduct by officials acting on behalf of a foreign power may also be under scrutiny.
A recognizable America, not this whining beggar at the Kremlin’s gates, will have to return.
Ukraine will have to say no. That will have to be the end of this cretinous charade.
When the Russians invaded, my comment was that the past was invading the future.
The past will never beat the future.
Freedom, freiheit, svoboda, liberte, in any language, that’s the real victory.
Slava Ukraine!
____________________________________________________________
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in this Op-Ed are those of the author. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of the Digital Journal or its members.
Pulitzer winner skewers 'disgraceful' Trump deal: 'Sold out by an American president'
David McAfee
November 22, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he holds a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Puting following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Donald Trump's plan for Ukraine is a "disgrace," according to a foreign affairs expert who has won three Pulitzer Prizes.
Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs Opinion columnist for New York Times, skewered the president for his effort to achieve the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Finally, finally, President Trump just might get a peace prize that would secure his place in history. Unfortunately, though, it is not that Nobel peace prize he so covets. It is the 'Neville Chamberlain Peace Prize' — awarded by history to the leader of the country that most flagrantly sells out its allies and its values to an aggressive dictator," he wrote. "This prize richly deserves to be shared by Trump’s many 'secretaries of state' — Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Dan Driscoll — who together negotiated the surrender of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin’s demands without consulting Ukraine or our European allies in advance — and then told Ukraine it had to accept the plan by Thanksgiving." He added, "That is this coming Thursday."
Friedman then says the deal threatens the holiday itself.
"If Ukraine is, indeed, forced to surrender to the specific terms of this 'deal' by then, Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a Russian holiday," he wrote. "It will become a day of thanks that victory in Putin’s savage and misbegotten war against Ukraine’s people, which has been an utter failure — morally, militarily, diplomatically and economically — was delivered to Russia not by the superiority of its arms or the virtue of its claims, but by an American administration."
The expert went on to say that, "By rewarding Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine based on his obsession with making it part of Mother Russia, the U.S. will be putting the whole European Union under Putin’s thumb."
"Trump’s message to our allies will be clear: Don’t provoke Putin, because as long as I am commander in chief, the United States will pay no price and we will bear no burden in the defense of your freedom. Which is why, if this plan is forced on Ukraine as is, we will need to add a new verb to the diplomatic lexicon: 'Trumped' — to be sold out by an American president, for reasons none of his citizens understand (but surely there are reasons)," he added. "And history will never forget the men who did it — Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, Dan Driscoll — for their shame will be everlasting."
Read more here.
David McAfee
November 22, 2025
RAW STORY
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he holds a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Puting following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Donald Trump's plan for Ukraine is a "disgrace," according to a foreign affairs expert who has won three Pulitzer Prizes.
Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs Opinion columnist for New York Times, skewered the president for his effort to achieve the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Finally, finally, President Trump just might get a peace prize that would secure his place in history. Unfortunately, though, it is not that Nobel peace prize he so covets. It is the 'Neville Chamberlain Peace Prize' — awarded by history to the leader of the country that most flagrantly sells out its allies and its values to an aggressive dictator," he wrote. "This prize richly deserves to be shared by Trump’s many 'secretaries of state' — Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Dan Driscoll — who together negotiated the surrender of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin’s demands without consulting Ukraine or our European allies in advance — and then told Ukraine it had to accept the plan by Thanksgiving." He added, "That is this coming Thursday."
Friedman then says the deal threatens the holiday itself.
"If Ukraine is, indeed, forced to surrender to the specific terms of this 'deal' by then, Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a Russian holiday," he wrote. "It will become a day of thanks that victory in Putin’s savage and misbegotten war against Ukraine’s people, which has been an utter failure — morally, militarily, diplomatically and economically — was delivered to Russia not by the superiority of its arms or the virtue of its claims, but by an American administration."
The expert went on to say that, "By rewarding Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine based on his obsession with making it part of Mother Russia, the U.S. will be putting the whole European Union under Putin’s thumb."
"Trump’s message to our allies will be clear: Don’t provoke Putin, because as long as I am commander in chief, the United States will pay no price and we will bear no burden in the defense of your freedom. Which is why, if this plan is forced on Ukraine as is, we will need to add a new verb to the diplomatic lexicon: 'Trumped' — to be sold out by an American president, for reasons none of his citizens understand (but surely there are reasons)," he added. "And history will never forget the men who did it — Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, Dan Driscoll — for their shame will be everlasting."
Read more here.
'Truly bizarre': Critics pounce on 'one of the biggest foreign policy scandals in history'
David McAfee
November 22, 2025
Lindsey Graham breaks with Trump on 'problematic' Ukraine peace plan
Alexander Willis
November 22, 2025
In a rare break with President Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized the White House’s proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan Saturday, describing it as “problematic” while also urging Trump to reconsider.
“While there are many good ideas in the proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan, there are several areas that are very problematic and can be made better,” Graham wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.
The White House had drafted a new plan to end the war in Ukraine as reported by The New York Times this week, a plan that would see Ukraine cede significant amounts of territory and reduce the size of its military. Drafted without involvement from Ukrainian officials, the peace plan involves concessions that Ukrainian leadership has long labeled as nonstarters.
And for Graham, long seen as a reliable backer of Trump’s agenda, the Russia-Ukraine peace plan did not meet his standards.
“The goal of any peace deal is to end the war honorably and justly – and not create new conflict,” Graham continued. “Finally, to the world: what about the fate of the almost 20,000 Ukrainian children kidnapped by Putin’s forces? This issue has to be addressed in any negotiated settlement.”
Ending the war in Ukraine has long been a priority of Trump’s, though talks with both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin
have proven unsuccessful. Trump has pressed Ukraine to cede territory in recent months, going so far as to have a “shouting match” with Zelenskyy in October over his refusal to cede territory.
David McAfee
November 22, 2025
RAW ST0RY
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio updates U.S. President Donald Trump on the Gaza proposal during a roundtable on antifa, an anti-fascist movement Trump designated a domestic "terrorist organization" via executive order on September 22, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 8, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
A peace plan being thrust upon Ukraine was actually written by Russia, according to reports, and Marco Rubio is taking heat for confusing messaging.
Foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin reported the news on X:
"BREAKING: After talking to @SecRubio, @SenatorRounds announces that the 28 point plan was a Russian document, not a US document," he wrote.
Sen. Angus King, one of the senators who broke with the majority of the Democratic caucus to support a deal to end the federal government shutdown, confirmed that Rubio report, saying, "According to Secretary Rubio, this plan is not the administration’s position — it is essentially the Russians’ wish list that is now being presented to the Europeans and to the Ukrainians."
That sparked outrage.
Former Lincoln Project veterans affairs adviser Fred Wellman, an ex-Republican and current Democratic campaign consultant, said, "This is the most incompetent and idiotic Administration in history," and then added, "Who is in charge?"
Political scientist Norman Ornstein responded to Wellman, saying simply, "Putin."
But there's a twist, because a State Department spokesman, Tommy Pigott, issued the following statement:
"This is blatantly false. As Secretary Rubio and the entire Administration has consistently maintained, this plan was authored by the United States, with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians."
That led to senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio to chime in with, "A truly bizarre series of events."
"Senators from both parties said in Halifax that Rubio told them via phone today that the Ukraine peace plan is actually a Russian document, not a U.S. proposal," he added. "State Department spox says that’s not true, it’s a U.S.-authored proposal. ???"
MeidasTouch also added, "Holy s---: here’s a tweet where Vance pushed the Ukraine 'peace plan' that Marco Rubio just admitted was written entirely by Russia. This may be one of the biggest foreign policy scandals in history."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio updates U.S. President Donald Trump on the Gaza proposal during a roundtable on antifa, an anti-fascist movement Trump designated a domestic "terrorist organization" via executive order on September 22, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 8, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
A peace plan being thrust upon Ukraine was actually written by Russia, according to reports, and Marco Rubio is taking heat for confusing messaging.
Foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin reported the news on X:
"BREAKING: After talking to @SecRubio, @SenatorRounds announces that the 28 point plan was a Russian document, not a US document," he wrote.
Sen. Angus King, one of the senators who broke with the majority of the Democratic caucus to support a deal to end the federal government shutdown, confirmed that Rubio report, saying, "According to Secretary Rubio, this plan is not the administration’s position — it is essentially the Russians’ wish list that is now being presented to the Europeans and to the Ukrainians."
That sparked outrage.
Former Lincoln Project veterans affairs adviser Fred Wellman, an ex-Republican and current Democratic campaign consultant, said, "This is the most incompetent and idiotic Administration in history," and then added, "Who is in charge?"
Political scientist Norman Ornstein responded to Wellman, saying simply, "Putin."
But there's a twist, because a State Department spokesman, Tommy Pigott, issued the following statement:
"This is blatantly false. As Secretary Rubio and the entire Administration has consistently maintained, this plan was authored by the United States, with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians."
That led to senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio to chime in with, "A truly bizarre series of events."
"Senators from both parties said in Halifax that Rubio told them via phone today that the Ukraine peace plan is actually a Russian document, not a U.S. proposal," he added. "State Department spox says that’s not true, it’s a U.S.-authored proposal. ???"
MeidasTouch also added, "Holy s---: here’s a tweet where Vance pushed the Ukraine 'peace plan' that Marco Rubio just admitted was written entirely by Russia. This may be one of the biggest foreign policy scandals in history."
Lindsey Graham breaks with Trump on 'problematic' Ukraine peace plan
Alexander Willis
November 22, 2025
RAW STORY
In a rare break with President Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized the White House’s proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan Saturday, describing it as “problematic” while also urging Trump to reconsider.
“While there are many good ideas in the proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan, there are several areas that are very problematic and can be made better,” Graham wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.
The White House had drafted a new plan to end the war in Ukraine as reported by The New York Times this week, a plan that would see Ukraine cede significant amounts of territory and reduce the size of its military. Drafted without involvement from Ukrainian officials, the peace plan involves concessions that Ukrainian leadership has long labeled as nonstarters.
And for Graham, long seen as a reliable backer of Trump’s agenda, the Russia-Ukraine peace plan did not meet his standards.
“The goal of any peace deal is to end the war honorably and justly – and not create new conflict,” Graham continued. “Finally, to the world: what about the fate of the almost 20,000 Ukrainian children kidnapped by Putin’s forces? This issue has to be addressed in any negotiated settlement.”
Ending the war in Ukraine has long been a priority of Trump’s, though talks with both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin
have proven unsuccessful. Trump has pressed Ukraine to cede territory in recent months, going so far as to have a “shouting match” with Zelenskyy in October over his refusal to cede territory.
Ukraine, US to start talks in Switzerland on Trump’s plan to end war
By AFP
November 22, 2025
Khrystyna ZANYK
Ukraine and the US will soon meet in Switzerland to discuss Washington’s plan for ending the war with Russia, which currently heeds to some of Russia’s hardline demands, Kyiv said Saturday.
US President Donald Trump gave Ukraine less than a week to approve the 28-point plan to end the nearly four-year conflict, which would see the invaded country ceding territory, cutting its army, and pledging to never join NATO.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s European allies, who were not included in drafting the agreement, were scrambling at the G20 summit in South Africa to come up with a counter-offer to Trump’s plan to beef up Kyiv’s positions.
“In the coming days in Switzerland we are launching consultations between senior officials of Ukraine and the United States on the possible parameters of a future peace agreement,” Rustem Umerov, who is on Ukraine’s negotiating team, wrote on social media.
“This is another stage of the dialogue that has been ongoing in recent days and is primarily aimed at aligning our vision for the next steps,” added Umerov, a former defence minister, who is now the Secretary of the Security Council.
He previously led a few rounds of negotiations with Russia in Turkey, which yielded no breakthrough. This time, Zelensky appointed his top aide, Andriy Yermak, to lead the team, according to a presidential decree.
The decree said the talks will also include “representatives of the Russian Federation.”
There was no immediate confirmation from Russia whether it would join the talks.
– Just peace –
In a joint declaration, the G20 leaders called for a “just, comprehensive, and lasting peace,” but not only in Ukraine, but also in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
France’s Emmanuel Macron sent a somber message to the gathering, saying “the G20 may be coming to the end of a cycle,” adding that the grouping was struggling to resolve major crises around the world.
He referred specifically to a new unilateral US plan to end the war in Ukraine that accepts some of Russia’s hardline demands.
Shortly before that, Macron met with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the sidelines the summit, boycotted by the US, to discuss a joint response to Washington’s plan.
Starmer had earlier said the aim was to “look at how we can strengthen this plan for the next phase of negotiations”.
– Difficult choice –
Ukraine faces one of the most challenging moments in its history, Zelensky said in an address to the nation, adding that he would propose alternatives to Trump’s proposal.
“The pressure on Ukraine is one of the hardest. Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either the loss of dignity or the risk of losing a key partner,” Zelensky said in his address, referring to a possible break with Washington.
To end the war, the US plan envisages recognising territories controlled by Moscow as “de facto” Russian, with Kyiv pulling troops out of parts of the Donetsk region.
Ukraine would also cap its army at 600,000, rule out joining NATO and have no troops from the alliance deployed to its territory.
In return, Ukraine would get unspecified “reliable security guarantees” and a fund for reconstruction using some Russia assets frozen in foreign accounts.
While Russia would gain territory, be reintegrated into the global economy and rejoin the G8, according to a draft of the plan.
Putin said the blueprint could “lay the foundation” for a final peace settlement, but threatened more land seizures if Ukraine walked away from negotiations.
Better equipped and larger in numbers, the Russian army is slowly but steadily gaining ground across the lengthy front line.
Ukrainians were meanwhile facing one of the toughest winters since the war began, after Moscow carried out a brutal bombing campaign against energy infrastructure.
This comes as a sweeping corruption probe that unveiled graft in the energy sector was unravelling in Kyiv, sparking public outcry.
By AFP
November 22, 2025
Khrystyna ZANYK
Ukraine and the US will soon meet in Switzerland to discuss Washington’s plan for ending the war with Russia, which currently heeds to some of Russia’s hardline demands, Kyiv said Saturday.
US President Donald Trump gave Ukraine less than a week to approve the 28-point plan to end the nearly four-year conflict, which would see the invaded country ceding territory, cutting its army, and pledging to never join NATO.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s European allies, who were not included in drafting the agreement, were scrambling at the G20 summit in South Africa to come up with a counter-offer to Trump’s plan to beef up Kyiv’s positions.
“In the coming days in Switzerland we are launching consultations between senior officials of Ukraine and the United States on the possible parameters of a future peace agreement,” Rustem Umerov, who is on Ukraine’s negotiating team, wrote on social media.
“This is another stage of the dialogue that has been ongoing in recent days and is primarily aimed at aligning our vision for the next steps,” added Umerov, a former defence minister, who is now the Secretary of the Security Council.
He previously led a few rounds of negotiations with Russia in Turkey, which yielded no breakthrough. This time, Zelensky appointed his top aide, Andriy Yermak, to lead the team, according to a presidential decree.
The decree said the talks will also include “representatives of the Russian Federation.”
There was no immediate confirmation from Russia whether it would join the talks.
– Just peace –
In a joint declaration, the G20 leaders called for a “just, comprehensive, and lasting peace,” but not only in Ukraine, but also in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
France’s Emmanuel Macron sent a somber message to the gathering, saying “the G20 may be coming to the end of a cycle,” adding that the grouping was struggling to resolve major crises around the world.
He referred specifically to a new unilateral US plan to end the war in Ukraine that accepts some of Russia’s hardline demands.
Shortly before that, Macron met with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the sidelines the summit, boycotted by the US, to discuss a joint response to Washington’s plan.
Starmer had earlier said the aim was to “look at how we can strengthen this plan for the next phase of negotiations”.
– Difficult choice –
Ukraine faces one of the most challenging moments in its history, Zelensky said in an address to the nation, adding that he would propose alternatives to Trump’s proposal.
“The pressure on Ukraine is one of the hardest. Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either the loss of dignity or the risk of losing a key partner,” Zelensky said in his address, referring to a possible break with Washington.
To end the war, the US plan envisages recognising territories controlled by Moscow as “de facto” Russian, with Kyiv pulling troops out of parts of the Donetsk region.
Ukraine would also cap its army at 600,000, rule out joining NATO and have no troops from the alliance deployed to its territory.
In return, Ukraine would get unspecified “reliable security guarantees” and a fund for reconstruction using some Russia assets frozen in foreign accounts.
While Russia would gain territory, be reintegrated into the global economy and rejoin the G8, according to a draft of the plan.
Putin said the blueprint could “lay the foundation” for a final peace settlement, but threatened more land seizures if Ukraine walked away from negotiations.
Better equipped and larger in numbers, the Russian army is slowly but steadily gaining ground across the lengthy front line.
Ukrainians were meanwhile facing one of the toughest winters since the war began, after Moscow carried out a brutal bombing campaign against energy infrastructure.
This comes as a sweeping corruption probe that unveiled graft in the energy sector was unravelling in Kyiv, sparking public outcry.
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