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\nA U. S. security guard holds a Ukrainian flag as he walks outside the U. S.-ukraine talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday. (visual China)<\/p>\n
U.S. and Ukrainian representatives held talks Tuesday in Geneva on President Donald Trump’s 28-point plan to end the Russian-ukrainian conflict. In response to the\u201cNew peace plan\u201d, Donald Trump claimed that Zelenskiy\u201cWill have to like\u201d and approve it or\u201cThey will continue to fight\u201d. He also gave Ukraine an ultimatum to accept the plan by the 27th of this month. In response, Zelenskiy held emergency consultations with a number of EU countries and said he would propose an\u201cAlternative\u201d to Donald Trump’s plan. Meanwhile, Russian President Putin said the plan could serve as a\u201cBasis for a final peaceful settlement\u201d between Russia and Ukraine. Although many European media referred to this plan as the\u201cU.S.-MADE Ukrainian surrender plan,\u201d the leaders of the European Union, France, Germany, Britain and other countries issued a joint statement on the 22nd, while welcoming the\u201cU. S. effort,\u201d it said the plan\u201cNeeds to be further refined.\u201d. Some analysts believe that the game between the US, Ukraine, Russia and Europe on how to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine may become more intense in the future.<\/p>\n
\nA U. S. security guard holds a Ukrainian flag as he walks outside the U. S.-ukraine talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday. (visual China)<\/p>\n
Donald Trump: \u201cHe must accept.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zelenskiy has signed an order, yermak Timofeyevich, the President’s chief of Staff, led a delegation to Geneva to begin consultations on Donald Trump’s\u201cPeace plan\u201d. The delegation also includes the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Commission and the Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian army.<\/p>\n
Agence France-presse said the U.S. side to participate in negotiations is the U.S. Secretary of State Rubio, the U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Witkoff. In addition, the European Union, Britain, France, Germany and other senior officials also attended the talks. British prime minister Stamer on the 22nd stressed that any solution should provide\u201cSolid security\u201d for Ukraine.<\/p>\n
To some Ukrainian and European relief, Donald Trump toned down his earlier calls for immediate approval of the 28-point plan. According to the Wall Street Journal, because some Republican lawmakers in Ukraine, many European countries and even the United States have criticized the plan as\u201cToo biased toward Moscow,\u201d \u201cNo, this is not my final plan,\u201d Donald Trump said at the White House yesterday when asked if the plan’s terms were no longer negotiable, without specifying what might be changed but stressing that, \u201cIn any case, we want peace, which is long overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n
A day earlier, Donald Trump Fox News Channel interview also insisted that 27 is the appropriate deadline for Kiev to accept the plan. Zelenskiy had to approve the plan, he said, given the tight time frame for the approaching winter and the need to end the bloodshed. \u201cHe has to accept it, and if not, they keep fighting! At some point, he will have to accept something he wasn’t willing to accept before.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the White House late yesterday, Donald Trump said again that Zelenskiy\u201cWill have to like\u201d the plan and approve it. He says Ukraine is losing territory and will lose more in the short term. \u201cDo you remember what happened in the White House Oval Office a few months ago?\u201d He said, recalling a tense stand-off with Zelenskiy at the White House in February? I said then [ to Zelenskiy ] , ‘you have no cards’ .\u201d<\/p>\n
Zelenskiy: U will mention\u201cAlternative options\u201d<\/p>\n
Vice President Vance spoke to Zelenskiy on the phone Monday to discuss the plan for nearly an hour after Donald Trump issued an ultimatum, AP reported. After speaking to Vance, Zelenskiy tweeted on social media that the country had\u201cAgreed to co-operate with the US and Europe at the national security assistant level to make the path to peace truly viable\u201d.<\/p>\n
Later, in a video address, Zelenskiy said the country was under more pressure than ever and faced a difficult choice between accepting the\u201cDifficult\u201d 28-point plan, or face the harshest winters and the dangers that come with them. He added that Uzbekistan would put forward its views and\u201cAlternative options\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russian\u201cIzvestia\u201d reported on the 22nd, on the evening of the 21st, Putin said at a Russian federal security conference that the Russian side had received the text of the\u201c28-point plan\u201d through existing communication channels with the US government, \u201cI think it could be the basis for a final peace settlement,\u201d Putin said, saying that Russia was ready for peace talks, which would require substantive discussions on all the details of the new plan, but the U. S. side has not discussed the specific content of the program with the Russian side. He said that the U. S. has not yet secured the agreement of the Ukrainian side to the program, and the Ukrainian side opposed the program. \u201cIt is clear that the Ukrainians and their European allies remain under the illusion that they will inflict a strategic defeat on the Russian side on the battlefield,\u201d Putin said, adding that if Ukraine refused to discuss the\u201c28-point plan\u201d, then the Russian army is bound to repeat the Kupiansk in other key front areas.<\/p>\n
Europe: Plan ‘needs further refinement’<\/p>\n
As for the Geneva talks and Donald Trump’s\u201c28-point Plan\u201d, european leaders including European Commission President Michel von der Leyen, French president Maqueron, German Chancellor Merz and British Prime Minister Stamer issued a joint statement on the 22nd during the G20 summit in South Africa, while praising the draft plan for having\u201cElements that are essential for achieving a just and lasting peace\u201d, it also stated that\u201cIt needs to be further refined\u201d and reaffirmed that\u201cInternational borders should not be changed by force\u201d.<\/p>\n
In contrast to the statements by European leaders, the plan has been heavily criticised in the European media. The French Le Figaro called the 28-point plan\u201cThe American plan for the surrender of Ukraine\u201d, which it said had left the leading European countries with a long sleepless night.<\/p>\n
Radio France Internationale said Europe did not expect the United States, the\u201cLeader of the free world,\u201d to\u201cStab Ukraine in the back\u201d at the expense of its European allies, with Putin to design a so-called\u201cPeace plan\u201d for Kiev. Reported that the European countries at this time more need to close together to cope, but this proposal is after all made in the name of the United States, European allies cautious, not publicly rejected. In their joint statement, they also welcomed\u201cThe efforts of the United States.\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe countdown has begun,\u201d Le Monde said yesterday, adding that Donald Trump believed the only way to speed up the process was to put pressure on what he saw as the weaker party. Zelenskiy, meanwhile, has been put on the ropes by a major corruption scandal. What will happen to Ukraine and Europe if dangerous sticking points in the\u201c28-point plan\u201d can not be adjusted? Russia, it seems, is waiting for the transatlantic alliance to fall apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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