The Trump administration’s 28-point draft proposal to finally end Russia’s invasion into Ukraine would require Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government to make significant concessions — but also includes NATO-style security guarantees for Ukraine, according to a senior U.S. official, ABC News reports.
The plan, which is still a draft and could change, was presented in Kyiv earlier Thursday.
The plan was drafted by Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff with input from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the White House press secretary and a senior U.S. administration official confirmed Thursday.
The plan would force Kyiv to give up additional territory in the east, cap the size of its military and agree it will never join NATO, among a number of other items that will be painful for the war-torn country to swallow.
Even though the Trump administration plan calls for significant concessions from Ukraine, one of the security guarantees that will be provided to Ukraine is modeled on the principles of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Under the proposed plan, the U.S. and European allies would view an attack on Ukraine as an attack on the “transatlantic community,” according to a senior U.S. administration official.
Officially, the 28-point peace plan notes that “Ukraine will receive reliable security guarantees.”
The senior official confirmed that one of those security guarantees is a NATO-style security guarantee, which means the U.S. and its allies could respond with military force if Russia attacks Ukraine in the future.
That could be seen as a huge, unprecedented win for Ukraine and Zelenskyy, who has, for years, sought long-term, collective defense protection from NATO allies.
The plan was presented to Zelenskky on Thursday, the U.S. official said.
“This plan was drawn up immediately following discussions with one of the most senior members of President Zelensky’s administration, Rustem Umerov, who agreed to the majority of the plan, after making several modifications, and presented it to President Zelensky,” the senior U.S. administration official said to ABC News.
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