WASHINGTON — The US’ sweeping 28-point blueprint to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine proposes everything territorial freezes to troop caps, economic reintegration for Moscow, and a future “Peace Council” chaired by former President Donald Trump, senior US officials confirmed exclusively to The Post.
The plan, which Kyiv and Moscow have not publicly accepted, outlines the most detailed picture yet of what Washington foresees as a way to end the war — and was built on weeks of US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s consultations with both the Russians and Ukrainians, the officials said.
The officials said they received “positive feedback” from Ukraine’s Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov during discussions with Witkoff in Miami in recent weeks, but stopped short of saying Kyiv signed off on the deal.
“The plan was drawn up immediately following discussions with one of the most senior members of Zelensky administration, Umerov,” one of the officials said. “So Umerov agreed to the majority of this plan, and he made several modifications to it, which we included and presented it to President Zelensky.”
“I don’t want to say that [Kyiv] full-heartedly like agreed to it and they’re ready to sign off. They agreed to the majority of the plan,” the person added.
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