FT: Putin Rejects 22-point Peace Plan Drawn Up By US And Ukraine
- 17.05.2025, 14:15
Because of this, Trump's special envoy postponed his next trip to the Kremlin this week.
The United States, with the participation of Ukraine and Europe, developed a 22-point peace plan to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. However, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin refused to discuss these peace initiatives.
This is according to a Financial Times story.
According to three of the publication's sources, senior Russian officials told U.S. Presidential Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff last week that Putin did not want to discuss the 22-point peace plan that Whitkoff had developed with the participation of Ukraine and Europe.
This, they say, led Trump's special envoy to postpone his next trip to Putin this week, though a person close to him says no next trip was planned at all.
The plan that Whitkoff brought and wanted to discuss included 22 points. The next day, the same points were discussed by Ukrainian and U.S. officials during a phone call.
From Ukraine, the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov participated in the conversation, while from the U.S., Whitkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg participated.
It is not yet known what kind of peace plan the FT writes about. Previously, the media wrote only about the Ukraine and Europe plan that was handed to Trump.
After that, the publication writes, the pace of diplomatic activity picked up. European and Ukrainian leaders met to call for an unconditional 30-day cease-fire, warning Putin of tough new sanctions if he did not comply with the demand, which the U.S. backs.
The journalists also noted that the Russian dictator's reluctance to participate in major peace talks has become more apparent in recent days, even to those in the Donald Trump administration who had previously been sympathetic to Putin.
According to officials familiar with the talks, Vladimir Putin took a big risk last week by slowly pushing U.S. negotiators toward a peace proposal and then refusing to come to talks with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Turkey that he himself had publicly initiated.