“This document is complete nonsense, illogical,” complained lawmaker Oleksandr Merezhko. A day after the revelation of the 28-point Russian-American plan for a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Rada did not lose his temper. These proposals, he said, met Moscow’s maximum demands without any compensation to Kyiv. “Did Donald Trump read it?» asked members of the president’s party.
For both the majority and the opposition, there was astonishment and anger at the Russian-American document, which was discussed on Sunday in Geneva by Ukrainian, American and European officials, under pressure from Washington. Among the three most sensitive points are the handover of territory in the Donbass still under Ukrainian control, the reduction of the army to 600,000 men, and the rejection of membership in NATO.
