Moscow on Thursday denied a Bloomberg report that Russia intends to demand major changes in the latest version of the US peace plan for Ukraine. The information in the agency’s article, which refers to a source close to the Kremlin, was called false by the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marija Zakharova, TASS reported.
“It’s fake news,” Zacharova wrote in the Telegram application. “This media has no reliable sources close to the Kremlin. It has only unreliable sources. And the wording about ‘close to the Kremlin’ is just a cover for fake news.” added the diplomat according to TASS.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time outlined the main points of the draft 20-point peace plan, which discussed by Ukrainian and American negotiators in Miami and which, according to him, could become the basis of future agreements on ending the war with Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that The Kremlin is analyzing the proposals delivered to the head of state by Russian negotiator and special envoy Kirill Dmitriev. This past weekend, he also held talks in Miami with the envoy of the US president, Steve Witkoff, and the son-in-law of the head of the White House, Jared Kushner.
Bloomberg agency, citing an unnamed source, said that Russia will demand fundamental changes in the latest draft of the peace plan, which should also include greater restrictions on the Ukrainian army. According to this source, Moscow considers the 20-point plan drawn up by Ukraine and the US as a starting point for further negotiations, as it does not contain provisions important to Russia and does not address many issues.
Kyiv and Washington have not yet been able to agree on long-term territorial issues and the status of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Zelenskyy called for negotiations with US President Donald Trump in order to resolve them. But the new proposal does not, for example, require Ukraine to give up its ambition to join the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO).
According to TASS, the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs have repeatedly stated that Moscow is not satisfied with several points of Ukraine’s plan. TASS writes that Russia mainly demands the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Donbass, the formal renunciation of NATO membership ambitions by Kiev, and also the limitation of the size of the Ukrainian army.
