Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine and NATO’s surprise

According to Isna, according to “Guardian” newspaper, US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll had a meeting with NATO ambassadors in Kyiv late Friday after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and receiving a phone call from the White House.

According to one of the people present at this meeting, Driscoll told them: “No agreement is perfect, but a peace agreement should be established as soon as possible.”

According to the Guardian, there was a sad atmosphere in the room during the meeting, and several European ambassadors questioned the content of the new agreement and the way the US negotiated with Russia over it, which was accompanied by ignorance and marginalization of other allies.

Citing Donald Trump’s famous quote from a spat with Zelensky in February at the White House that “Zelensky no longer has a card to play,” the source cited by the Guardian said: “This meeting was a nightmare meeting and once again the argument was made that you have no more cards to play.”

Western media have reported that the new agreement proposed by the Trump administration includes some clauses that Kiev will probably not accept, such as accepting the transfer of land it lost during the war to Russia, along with the transfer of part of the land that Kiev still controls. Also, according to this agreement, all war crimes committed during this war will be amnesty.

“We are living in one of the most difficult times in our history,” Zelenskiy said in a video address to the people of his country on the subject of the new agreement on Friday. “We have to choose between losing our dignity or losing an important ally.”

Driscoll, a close friend of US Vice President J.D. Vance, who recently joined the negotiating team to end the war in Ukraine, declined to comment on whether the agreement on the table is compatible with the Article 28 plan that has been published in the press, according to the Guardian. “Some issues are important, but other issues are just a show, and we’re focused on the important issues,” Driscoll said, according to a source familiar with the matter.

According to the Guardian, the United States, following the unveiling of its new peace agreement plan to end the war, surprised Ukraine’s allies, who were kept in the dark about the content and format of the plan. Europe is now worried that Russia has given too much room for comment in the negotiations over a draft agreement that was apparently presented to the Ukrainians as a done deal. Driscoll defended this issue and said that the negotiation process was more manageable in this environment. According to the source present at the meeting, he also said: “President Trump now wants peace.” “The more cooks there are in the kitchen, the more difficult it is to manage.”

US Chargé d’Affaires in Kyiv, Julie Davis, who was present at the meeting, told other diplomats that although it is difficult for Ukraine to accept the terms of this agreement, Kyiv has no choice but to accept it, otherwise it will face worse conditions in the future. He stated: “No better agreement can be made than this and anything else will be worse.”

At the same time, according to this report, Trump is eager for Zelensky to accept this agreement by the Thanksgiving holiday, which is next Thursday. Davis told reporters a few days ago that Trump has taken an “aggressive time frame” to complete the deal.

He said on the sidelines of the welcoming ceremony for Driscoll and the accompanying American military delegation, which was held in the presence of senior Ukrainian military figures at the residence of the American ambassador in Kiev: “We have seen a very impressive speed in diplomatic activities.” He said that this diplomacy was the “most ambitious” diplomacy he had seen during his foreign service.

In response to the question of why Ukraine should cede territory in its east that Russian forces have not been able to capture since 11 years ago, an American official said, “This agreement is useful for Ukraine.” Officials expect Trump and Zelensky to hold a meeting and sign a document “for peace.”

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