Ukraine agreed to the modified US-backed peace proposal to end Russia’s war against it, international media reported on Tuesday.
While specific details of the plan have not been revealed yet, the plan reportedly caters more to Ukraine and US interests than Moscow, a notable sticking point of the original Trump administration's 28-point proposal.
The plan also includes strengthened security guarantees, and the Ukrainian delegation had said it "reflects their national interests,” Reuters reported. It would leave major sticking points of a ceasefire, including territorial exchanges and NATO membership, for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump to discuss.
"Very few things are left from the original version,” Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister Sergiy Kyslytsya told the Financial Times. “We developed a solid body of convergence, and a few things we can compromise on,” he said. “The rest will need leadership decisions.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that "there are a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details that must be sorted out and will require further talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States."
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The original 28-point plan was a difficult deal for Ukraine to accept. Zelensky said that the plan would force the country to choose between “the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner.”
Kyslytsya noted that in talks in Geneva, American officials were eager to negotiate with Ukrainian officials.
“Almost everything we suggested was taken on board,” he told the FT.
During talks in Geneva between the US, Ukrainian, and European delegations, EU representatives presented their own counterproposal to Trump’s original plan.
The European proposal says that "negotiations on territorial swaps will start from the Line of Contact."
It also says that Ukraine's military would be capped at 800,000 "in peacetime," rather than the blanket stop of 600,000 proposed by the US plan. The European proposal also called for elections in the country as soon as possible, though it remains to be seen when they will be held.
For many Ukrainians, including soldiers fighting on the front lines, the US terms would amount to capitulation after nearly four years of fighting in Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II.
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Notably, the Kremlin indicated that it would not accept the deal.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow "thought these understandings had already been formalised, there was a long pause," as reported by the FT.
"Now the pause has been broken by the introduction of this document . . . A whole series of issues there, of course, require clarification.”
He alleged that as of the time of publication, "no one has officially handed us anything."
Trump said the proposal is not a final offer, but previously stated that he wanted the deal signed by this Thursday. However, the FT report says that Trump now expects a draft of the new Ukrainian plan by Thanksgiving.
Zelensky could reportedly travel to the US as early as this week to discuss the plan with Trump, officials said.
Reuters contributed to this report.