Proceed Carefully: U.S. Media Reporting Zelenskyy Has Agreed to Terms for End of Ukraine-Russia Conflict
When we are reviewing ‘western’ media presentations about Ukraine, proceed with extreme caution.
Remember, (1) Zelenskyy is ideologically opposed to coming to terms for a ceasefire against Russia. (2) Zelenskyy has the full support of the European nations to continue fighting. (3) Ukraine has a habit of using positive statements as tools to try and box in President Trump, only to hold firm to certain positions in an effort to derail peace negotiations.
Western media are now reporting the 28 points of President Trump’s proposal for a ceasefire have now been reduced to a core 19 points that Ukraine President Volodymr Zelenskyy accepts. Previously secret meetings between U.S. military and Russia are taking place in Abu Dhabi.
WASHINGTON – Ukraine has agreed to the U.S. peace plan with only “some minor details to be sorted out”, an American official told CBS News on Tuesday. Top Kyiv security official Rustem Umerov appeared to confirm the report, writing on X this morning that Ukraine had reached an understanding on the “core terms” of the U.S. peace plan during the discussions in Geneva. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to travel to the White House later this month to finalize the agreement.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and Russia held secret talks in Abu Dhabi on Monday, according to reports by Reuters and the Financial Times, as the Trump administration tries to maintain the momentum of progress with its evolving peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which still rages in the background. Those talks are set to continue on Tuesday. (more)
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WASHINGTON DC – Ukraine said Tuesday that it was hoping to finalize a deal with President Donald Trump in the coming days, as the United States intensified its new push to end Russia’s war.
Kyiv and its allies voiced optimism that talks with an American delegation had produced changes to the plan, which they initially viewed as granting the Kremlin its core demands at the expense of Ukraine and Europe.
“We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war,” Rustem Umerov, a top official in Zelenskyy’s government, said in a post on X early Tuesday.
Umerov said the delegations reached “a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva.” (more)
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