More details have emerged in discussions regarding the creation of a controversial US plan to end the war in Ukraine. Like an agency Bloomberg Reportedly, US special envoy Steve Witkoff is said to have briefed Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy adviser in a five-minute phone call on October 14 about how the Russian president discussed the issue with the US president. Donald Trump must be dealt with in the best way. One of his recommendations to Yuri Ushakov was to organize a phone call between Trump and Putin before Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House and use the Gaza agreement as a starting point.
Moments later, the US presented its 28-point plan. In it they demand from Ukraine lots of concessions. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the weekend that it was on Russia’s “wish list”. After objections from Ukraine and counter proposals from European partners, the negotiating team revised the plan in Geneva in recent days; Ukraine received more security guarantees in the new version.
Insight into the Witkoff negotiations
The phone call, which is a full transcript Bloomberg published, providing insight into Witkoff’s negotiating tactics towards Russia and the origins of the 28-point plan. In the conversation, Ushakov asked Witkoff if it was for him Putin It makes sense to call Trump. Witkoff said yes and recommended that Putin congratulate Trump on the peace agreement in the Gaza Strip.
He should also emphasize that he respects the president as a man of peace. “Then it would be a very good decision,” Witkoff said. “Maybe he would say to President Trump: You know, Steve and Yuri have discussed a very similar 20-point peace plan, and this could be something that we think could change the situation a little bit. We’re open to things like that.”
Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, was quoted in the report as saying that this proves, above all, that special envoy Witkoff “talked almost every day with Russian and Ukrainian representatives to achieve peace, and that’s what President Trump appointed him to do.” Russia Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov has not commented on the report.
Meetings in Washington and Moscow
Putin said in November that he considered the US plan a possible basis for reaching a deal. The Russian president told senior Russian Security Council officials that the 28-point plan had not been discussed in detail with the US, but he had received a copy.
On Tuesday, Trump ordered Witkoff to meet with Putin in Moscow to discuss “controversial points” in the plan. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Meanwhile, wants to fly to Washington, DC this week to negotiate with the US President. They are planning Zelensky’s visit to the US “as early as possible in November,” Umjerov wrote on the Telegram messaging service.
After the Geneva talks, there were somewhat cautious signals coming from the EU. The United States and the coalition are willing to refine a security guarantee plan for Ukraine in a joint working group, France said. Ukraine needs a “serious” peace that “respects international law,” French President Emmanuel Macron said after a videoconference with US and European partners. Macron doubted Putin would back down, saying: “Russia is clearly not ready for a ceasefire at the moment.”
