US, Russia and Ukraine hold talks on Trump’s peace plan in Abu Dhabi
25 November 12:14
U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll is meeting with a Russian delegation and the head of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, Kyrylo Budanov, in Abu Dhabi to discuss the U.S. peace plan, Financial Times sources say, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
According to them, the talks with Moscow began on Monday evening, November 24, and were to continue on Tuesday. It is not specified who exactly came from the Kremlin. The meeting with Budanov will also take place on Tuesday. It is unclear whether a trilateral discussion will take place.
Driscoll is presenting US President Donald Trump’s plan, which was reduced from 28 to 19 points after talks with Ukrainians in Kyiv and Geneva. It removed demands for the transfer of Donbas and other sensitive territorial provisions to Russia, two sources familiar with the process told Politico. According to them, it was decided to leave the most difficult issues for personal negotiations between Trump and Zelensky. According to ABC News, the new version of the agreement also does not contain provisions on limiting the size of the Ukrainian army and amnesty for actions committed during the war.
Earlier, The Washington Post’s sources said that the plan removed clauses on US-Russian relations that are not directly related to ending the war with Ukraine. According to the newspaper, Kyiv also demanded that the issue of NATO membership be considered within the framework of the Alliance’s procedures, i.e. by consensus of member states. The original version of the plan referred to the legalization of the impossibility of Ukraine’s accession to the bloc.
The new version also removed a clause on allocating $100 billion from frozen Russian assets to create a Ukraine Recovery Fund under American control, Bloomberg wrote. European officials welcomed this change, as the previous version provided for the transfer of 50% of the profits to the United States and the allocation of unspent funds to the US-Russian investment fund.
The Kremlin said it had not yet seen the updated 19-point peace plan. The Russian dictator’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that Moscow has only the first version, which he called an “outline” of the US agreement on Ukraine. According to him, the draft “largely corresponds to the spirit of Anchorage,” but the Kremlin understands that the original text has been changed and is waiting for official information.
