Trump approves 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan, but no sign yet Ukraine agrees

A senior White House official confirmed to News themezone on Thursday that President Trump approved a 28-point plan to end the war that Russia launched nearly four years ago with its large scale invasion of Ukraine.

However, there was no indication that Ukraine had endorsed the proposal, which is believed to call for the current battle lines to be frozen where they are, with Russian occupation forces controlling a massive portion of eastern Ukraine. Trump’s endorsement of the plan was first reported by NBC.

In an interview with Axios on Monday, Kirill Dmitriev, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said he and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff had written a 28-point peace plan during a face-to-face visit last month in Miami.

Just days after the Trump administration imposed Sanctions on Russian oil and gas. In October, Dmitriev traveled to the United States for previously scheduled talks with Witkoff in an effort to further advance a proposal to end the war, as described by a senior US official at the time.

The White House official who spoke to News themezone’ Nancy Cordes on Thursday said Witkoff had been quietly working on the proposal for about a month, consulting with both Russians and Ukrainians to take their comments into account.

The plan calls for Ukraine to abandon territory, hand over some weapons and reduce its army, and although President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that the war must end, he reiterated that from kyiv’s perspective, “there can be no reward for waging war.”

Speaking to Cordes on Wednesday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said he had no announcement to share about a peace plan, but added that it was an issue that “the president has continued to put at the forefront of our foreign policy objective.”

Amid US diplomatic efforts (including a visit to kyiv this week by a delegation led by the secretary of the US army — Russian missiles have continued to hit Ukraine.

Rescuers were still searching Thursday for victims of a devastating Russian attack on an apartment building in the western city of Ternopil that killed at least 26 people, including three children, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Screeching Russian missiles hit the building on Wednesday, burning to death at least 19 people in the apartments.

The attack came just as Army Secretary Dan Driscoll arrived in the Ukrainian capital, a day after the United States gave the green light to a $100 million package to upgrade Ukraine’s Patriot missile interceptor systems.