The draft US-Russia peace plan has been widely leaked and it proposes to hand over those areas of Ukraine’s industrial eastern Donbas region still under Ukrainian control to the de facto control of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Latest versions of the text also call for Ukraine to cut the size of its armed forces to 600,000 people.
There are 28 key points and there are several on the face of it that could be acceptable to Ukraine. Others come across as vague and imprecise.
The US is keen to press ahead fast under an “aggressive timeline” with this draft, with reports suggesting Ukraine has until Thanksgiving late next week to agree to it.
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