“The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Serhiy Lavrov, said that Moscow did not receive any peace plan for Ukraine, which would contain 20 points. He claims that such a document did not reach the Kremlin either through official or informal channels.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Illustrative photo: Getty Images Source: “RIA Novosti” with reference to Lavrov’s words in an interview with the Internet project “Empathy Manucci”.
Details: Lavrov said that according to the results of the Anchorage summit, in his opinion, the parties could quite quickly agree on a peace agreement between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He characterized further options for agreements as attempts, in his words, to retreat from the “American initiative” on the part of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
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Direct speech: “In Anchorage, we found approaches based on the American initiative, American proposals – and which opened the way to peace. On this basis, it was quite realistic to quickly agree on the final settlement agreement.”
Details: In addition, Lavrov said that the Russian Federation is “ready for compromises”, but, according to him, they cannot relate to “key principles” on which “the lives of the state and millions of people depend.”
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation also stated that Europe is allegedly disrupting the coordination of those “moments” that, according to him, were reached in Alaska. He added that the goals of the so-called “SVO” for Russia “do not change” and, as he claims, are related to the “security” of the Russian Federation. Separately, Lavrov said that those who actively comment on the negotiations in Abu Dhabi allegedly “want to disrupt them.”
He also said that “Russia is ready for compromises”, but, according to him, they cannot relate to “key principles” on which “the life of the state and millions of people depend”.
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What preceded:
Axios journalist reported that on December 10 Ukraine has given the American side its response to the “peace plan” that Donald Trump’s administration has been working on in recent weeks.
The Bloomberg agency reported that the Ukrainian side handed over the response to the “peace plan” to the US without further details.
On December 9, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced the completion of work at the level of national security advisers on the proposals of Ukraine and Europe for the “peace plan”.
According to the FT, Donald Trump wants a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia “before Christmas.”
We will remind:
- Information about the new “peace plan” of the USA, which is designed to settle the war between Russia and Ukraine, appeared in a number of American mass media on November 19.
- In these publications, it was mentioned that the plan provides for the transfer of all of Donbas to Russia. Also, according to him, Ukraine should limit its arsenal of weapons, cut the army in half and accept Russian as the second state language.
- On November 21, the mass media published the text of the 28-point peace plan, according to which Ukraine should forever give up its territories, and Russia should receive amnesty.
- On November 23, Great Britain, Germany and France prepared counter-proposals to the draft American “peace plan” with 28 points, designed to make them more beneficial for Ukraine.
- Also, on November 23, negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine and the USA took place in Geneva, after which it became known about the “updated” peace document.
- The British newspaper Financial Times reported that as a result of the negotiations in Geneva, Trump’s team made adjustments to the initial version of the “peace plan”, as a result of which the number of points in it was reduced to 19.
- On December 2, Zelenskyi said that the updated version of the peace plan, which Ukraine is discussing with the United States, now contains 20 points instead of 28 in the initial version.