The United States is expecting Kyiv to respond this week to ideas for ending the war. In particular, to the refusal to join NATO and the possible recognition of Crimea as Russian by America. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The ideas were outlined in a confidential document that senior Trump administration officials presented to Ukrainian officials in Paris on Thursday, Western officials said. They were also shown to European officials at a one-day meeting.
The US is now awaiting Kyiv's response, which it expects to receive at a meeting of US, Ukrainian and European officials in London later this week. Then, if a consensus is reached among the three parties, the proposals could be forwarded to Moscow.
The ideas presented by the United States in Paris included several aspects. Among them:
- exclusion of Ukraine's accession to NATO;
- declaring the zone around the ZNPP a neutral territory that could be under Washington's control.
At the same time, according to Western officials, the ideas put forward by representatives of the Trump team do not meet a number of Russian demands. In particular, the United States does not recognize that Russia has the legal right to control four regions in eastern Ukraine (the Zaporizhia, Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk regions). At the same time, Washington does not demand that Russian troops leave these areas. Bloomberg previously reported that the United States will consider recognizing Crimea as Russian.
"Acceptance of some of the Trump administration's ideas may prove difficult for Kyiv, as Ukraine has refused to recognize that Russia has legitimate claims to any of its territory," - writes WSJ.
Also, according to the publication, the US does not propose to limit the number of Ukrainian troops and does not rule out Western military support for Kyiv or the deployment of European troops in the country.
Earlier, information appeared in the media that US President Donald Trump intends to end the war in Ukraine by April 20.
On Saturday, April 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a so-called "Easter truce" that was to take effect from the evening of that day until the beginning of the current day. According to the statement, all hostilities were planned to be suspended.
The airspace was indeed quiet — at least on Sunday, no airstrikes were declared in any region. At the same time, the situation on the front lines remained tense. Although the intensity of the fighting had decreased, it had not completely stopped.
In response to the ceasefire initiative, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly called for a full ceasefire to be extended for at least 30 days, and then at least for a period of silence in the skies. However, there has been no reaction from Moscow.
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