Trump's peace plan narrows down to 19 points after Geneva talks – Bloomberg
Bloomberg reports this in an article, according to Ukrinform.
US and Ukrainian officials said they had worked over details of a peace blueprint, which caught Kyiv and Ukrainian allies off-guard with its demands that the war-battered nation drop its ambition to join NATO and surrender territory in the eastern Donbas regions, including areas Russia doesn't yet control.
According to a person familiar with the matter, the plan has now been narrowed down to a new list of 19 proposals. Sources said that the most recent version of the draft text no longer mentions a plan for some $100 billion in Russian frozen assets go toward US-led efforts to rebuild the country. The proposal foresaw the US receiving 50% of the profit with unspent frozen assets going into a US-Russian investment fund.
Other points were excluded for the time being and will be dealt with in separate documents for later negotiations, the source noted.
Sources from The Washington Post confirmed the reduction of the peace plan to 19 points, but said that the final number had not yet been agreed upon, but the foundation continued to be based on the original American proposal — not a separate European draft of the U.S. document that also circulated over the weekend. European suggestions were "helpful," the official said, but the Americans remained focused on their initial document.
A European official briefed on the talks said it seemed that provisions on European security were removed from the latest draft, which focused mostly on Ukraine.
However, according to Bloomberg's interlocutors, European officials expressed optimism that the Trump administration was engaging with Europe after the initial plan caught Kyiv's allies off guard.
Deputy Head of the Office of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ihor Brusilo, said that once all issues are resolved, and some of them will remain unresolved, for example, territorial issues, then the presidents will get in touch to discuss them and will likely lay the groundwork for a meeting at which they will finalize this idea. As for NATO membership, he added, for Ukraine, this issue is not completely off the agenda.
As Ukrinform reported, Oleksandr Bevz, adviser to the Head of the President's Office, stated the day before that the original 28-point peace plan for ending the Russian-Ukrainian war no longer exists.
According to Axios, the plan consisted of 28 points and was divided into four general categories: peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, security in Europe, and the future relations of the United States with Russia and Ukraine.
