Did the 28-point plan come from Moscow?US senators see “Kremlin wish list” – Rubio disagrees
Someone is definitely lying here: two senators – including a Republican – said, citing Secretary of State Rubio, that the 28-point plan was not a US proposal at all. Rubio presented it differently.
Who has a plan to end the war in Ukraine? There is contradictory information on this matter. Now US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has denied the statements of two US senators. You’ve said before that it’s not an American proposal, but rather a Russian wish list. Given the bias in favor of Moscow, observers already suspected that the paper was largely written by Russians.
However, the US government has so far presented the plan as its own design. Rubio is sticking to this line. On It was created by the US and is based on “advice from the Russian side, but also on previous and current contributions from Ukraine”. Foreign Ministry spokesman Tommy Pigott also stated the same thing. “As Secretary Rubio and the entire administration have repeatedly emphasized, this plan was written by the United States, with input from Russia and Ukraine,” he wrote in X.
The senators previously appeared before the press at a security forum in Halifax, Canada, and, citing Rubio, said otherwise. “This is not our recommendation, this is not our peace plan,” said Republican Senator Mike Rounds. According to independent Senator Angus King, the 28-point plan is said to be “basically a Russian wish list.”
The senators said Rubio called them. He made it clear that the US was “a recipient of the proposal,” Rounds said. An unnamed person conveyed the plan to US special envoy Steve Witkoff. The person should be seen as a representative of Russia.
Rounds described the draft as a “proposal” that has not been made public by the United States. “It leaked,” said the senator from the US state of South Dakota, referring to recent media reports announcing the plan. Sen. King, D-Maine, called the draft “a guide to narrowing the problem between Ukraine and Russia.” Now we must seek peace “that respects Ukraine’s integrity and sovereignty, does not reward aggression and offers appropriate security guarantees.” King also emphasized that Moscow should not be rewarded for its aggression in Ukraine. “Everyone wants this war to end, but we want it to end with a fair and just peace,” King said. Such a peace would have to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and “provide adequate security guarantees.”
A group of senators were warned
Earlier, other US senators had expressed criticism of the US initiative on Saturday. “We will not achieve lasting peace by making concession after concession to Putin and fatally weakening Ukraine’s defense capabilities,” the group, including several Republicans, wrote in a statement.
Journalist and Russia expert Luke Harding previously stated that the plan may have originated from the Russian pen, at least in part. “Some of the language in the US ‘peace proposal’ for Ukraine appears to have been originally written in Russian. In some places it works in Russian, but seems odd in English,” he wrote in the Guardian. Harding lists several “Russicisms” that sound strange in English.
Trump backs down from ultimatum
On Thursday, several US media outlets reported for the first time about the draft peace plan. This statement contains 28 points, many of which are particularly favorable to Russia. Ukraine, in turn, was asked to make major concessions. US President Donald Trump initially asked Ukraine to approve the plan on Thursday. But he later hinted that it might not be his final offer.
Because of these plans, Kyiv and its European allies entered crisis mode. Currently, representatives from Germany, France and the UK as well as the EU want to talk to America and Ukraine about the plan. The goal of Ukraine’s allies is to negotiate what they see as unacceptable concessions by Russia from the 28-point plan. The meeting in Geneva will take place at the advisory level to heads of state and government.
