Ukraine has agreed to Donald Trump‘s peace plan to end the war with Russia, according to a US official.
‘The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal,’ the official said. ‘There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal.’
The new agreement has been revised from 28 points to a 19-point peace plan that no longer includes amnesty guarantees for atrocities committed during the war. Kyiv has agreed to cap its army at 800,000 men.
It is less favorable to Moscow, leaving it up to Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to decide the most sensitive terms, including territorial disputes and US security guarantees.
Vladimir Putin is expected to dismiss the new deal ‘out of hand’ – leading to longer drawn-out negotiations Trump has tried to avoid, sources in Washington said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Tuesday that if the plan ‘erased … key understandings’ that Putin reached with Trump at the Alaska summit in August, the ‘situation will be fundamentally different’.