{"id":10870,"date":"2025-11-20T20:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ukraine-ready-to-work-with-us-on-plan-to-end-war\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:38:54","slug":"ukraine-ready-to-work-with-us-on-plan-to-end-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ukraine-ready-to-work-with-us-on-plan-to-end-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine ‘ready’ to work with US on plan to end war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A psychologist sits beside toys and flowers placed near a heavily damaged residential building following Russian air strike in the city of Ternopil, November 20, 2025. — AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Ukraine is ready to work with the United States to develop a plan to end the war with Russia, Kyiv said Thursday, after Washington officially presented a “draft plan” to President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n

Neither side has divulged details of the proposal, which, according to details provided to AFP<\/em> by a source familiar with the matter, appeared to echo many of Moscow’s demands for ending the war.<\/p>\n

Zelensky’s office said he expected to discuss the points with Trump in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we know about the plan:<\/span><\/h3>\n

Territory<\/h3>\n

Details of the plan, reported to contain 28 points, have been reported widely in Western media, and a senior source familiar with the matter also shared some aspects with AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What is known suggests Ukraine is being asked to concede to Russia’s key demands, while appearing to get very little in return.<\/p>\n

On territory, the plan calls for the “recognition of Crimea and other regions that the Russians have taken”, the source said.<\/p>\n

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Russia’s army occupies around a fifth of the country — much of it ravaged by years of fighting.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin claims to have annexed five Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in 2022 and Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n

Moscow has previously demanded that Ukraine completely withdraw its troops from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, in exchange for freezing the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has said it will never recognise Russian control over its land, but has conceded it might be forced to get it back through diplomatic means.<\/p>\n

Ceding territory in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions that Ukraine still controls could leave Ukraine vulnerable to future attacks by Russia.<\/p>\n

“It is a matter of our country’s survival,” Zelensky said recently.<\/p>\n

Army and weapons<\/h3>\n
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The plan calls for Ukraine to reduce its army to 400,000 personnel, cutting its military by more than half, the same source told AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Kyiv would also be required to give up all long-range weapons, the source added.<\/p>\n

Other media reports said there would be a complete ban on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

That fits with previous Russian demands that have been made public and goes against what Ukraine has cast as red lines.<\/p>\n

The proposal also reportedly includes vague provisions for Ukraine to negotiate some kind of security guarantees with the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n

Ukraine wants concrete Western-backed assurances, ideally in the form of Nato membership or Article-5 style defence guarantee and a European peacekeeping force, to prevent Russia from invading again.<\/p>\n

Whose plan?<\/h3>\n

The contents of the plan have fuelled suggestions that Russia was involved in drafting it.<\/p>\n

US media outlet Axios reported it had been drawn up by the Trump administration in secret consultation with Moscow.<\/p>\n

“It seems that the Russians proposed this to the Americans, they accepted it,” the senior source told AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“An important nuance is that we don’t understand whether this is really Trump’s story” or “his entourage’s”, the official added.<\/p>\n

After the plans were first reported, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “a durable peace will require both sides to agree to difficult but necessary concessions”.<\/p>\n

In a statement on social media, he said Washington would “continue to develop a list of potential ideas for ending this war based on input from both sides of this conflict”.<\/p>\n

Since returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump’s position on the Ukraine war has shifted dramatically back and forth.<\/p>\n

Over 2025, he has gone from calling Zelensky a “dictator” to urging Kyiv to try to reclaim all the land captured by Russia and hitting Moscow with sanctions.<\/p>\n

Invigorating diplomacy?<\/h3>\n

Confirming on Thursday that it had received the plan, Ukraine said the United States had told it the proposal “could invigorate diplomacy”.<\/p>\n

The statement from Zelensky’s office did not contain details or an assessment of the proposal, saying only that it had agreed with Washington “to ensure a dignified end to the war”.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian leader had met senior US army officials in Kyiv on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin said it had nothing to say when asked about the reports.<\/p>\n

The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said any peace settlement must have the agreement of both Kyiv and Brussels.<\/p>\n

“We have to understand that in this war, there is one aggressor and one victim. So we haven´t heard of any concessions on the Russian side,” she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ukraine ‘ready’ to work with US on plan to end war<\/div>\n

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