Axios: Trump’s peace plan meeting for Ukraine will be held in Geneva

According to RCO News Agency, US President Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine has caused many controversies since last week. While American officials want to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept this agreement, some Ukrainian and European officials have a different position and believe that this peace plan can be more beneficial to Russia.

“The United States, Ukraine, Germany, France and the United Kingdom are expected to hold talks in Geneva on Sunday on a new US peace plan to end the war in Ukraine,” Axios News website reported, citing three informed sources.

US Vice President JD Vance had a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday to discuss the plan. They agreed to hold face-to-face talks between the United States, Ukraine and European countries earlier this week.

“The US team is expected to be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and will include special presidential envoy Steve Wittkoff and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who met with Zelensky on Thursday in Kiev and presented the US plan,” said a US official and a source familiar with the matter.

“We will continue to work with the Ukrainians to get the best deal for them,” the US official told Axios. “We cannot speak to their position, but this agreement is, as it has always been, a collaboration between the United States, the Ukrainians and the Russians.”

He added: “The details of the agreement may change from the original version of the US peace plan. That is why we are negotiating, and this is literally the definition of negotiation.”

On the other hand, the President of Ukraine appointed his chief of staff Andriy Yermak as the head of the negotiation team, and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rostam Umerov, who recently negotiated with Steve Wittkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s advisers, will also be part of the Ukrainian delegation.

During Saturday, Volodymyr Zelenskiy made several calls to European leaders and informed them about Ukraine’s position on the plan.

A Ukrainian official admitted after the call: “All European leaders are shocked by this peace plan, but they support it.”

Axios added in this report: “The national security advisers of Germany, France, and Britain will also participate in these negotiations.”

Recently, the Western media reported on Donald Trump’s 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine; The agreement, some clauses of which have been put under the microscope of Volodymyr Zelensky and even Europe, and they did not like it, because in addition to handing over some Ukrainian lands to Russia, it apparently also includes the cancellation of Russian sanctions.

“Bloomberg” news media reported earlier in a report quoting an informed source who did not reveal his name: “Donald Trump’s 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, among other things, includes the lifting of sanctions against Russia.”

However, no more information has been released about which sanctions against Russia will be lifted.

Donald Trump’s 28-point plan calls for Russia to take full control of Luhansk and Donetsk (together called the Donbas), even though Ukraine still apparently controls about 12 percent of Donbas territory.

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