““Very serious.” The President of Finland revealed Trump’s plans for the agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation November 12, 10:10 Share: Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi met in New York on September 27, 2024 (Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo) President of Finland Alexander Stubb said his phone conversation with Donald Trump on Monday, Nov. 11, made it clear that the president-elect needs to be taken seriously”, — write on: ua.news
Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in New York on September 27, 2024 (Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo)
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said his phone conversation with Donald Trump on Monday, November 11, made it clear that the president-elect should be taken seriously when he talks about ending Russia’s war against Ukraine.
He stated this in an interview with Bloomberg.
“We in Europe and the rest of the world need to understand that Donald Trump is very serious about getting a peace deal done as soon as possible,” Stubb said, adding that there is now a window of opportunity between the election and the inauguration for those talks.
In addition, speaking at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, he listed four prerequisites for peace in Ukraine, including territory, security guarantees, justice, and recovery.
The Finnish president also met Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing last month. The leaders discussed, in particular, Russian aggression.
Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine – what is known
On November 6, The Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump’s advisers put forward different versions of the plan to actually freeze the front line in Ukraine. One of them provides for Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO for 20 years.
According to the publication, this plan includes freezing the front line and creating an 800-mile demilitarized zone (almost 1300 km). In addition, it provides for Russia to leave approximately 20% of the territory of Ukraine, which the aggressor country seized.
On November 7, it was reported that the Office of the President of Ukraine doubted the authenticity of this plan.
“In general, it can be said that the real plans of the presidents are hardly announced in the newspapers. And there are always a lot of Russian interjections in the newspapers,” Dmytro Lytvyn, adviser to the president of Ukraine on communication, commented on the publication.
The Economist reported that officials in Ukraine rely on two public formulations of Donald Trump’s “peace plan”.
For its part, The Telegraph reported that Trump’s plan may involve placing European and British troops in a 1,200-kilometer buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian armies.