Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed on Tuesday (Nov 245) that Russia will not support any peace proposal that deviates from Trump’s original 28-point plan.
Moscow received the latest version “through unofficial channels,” Lavrov said, adding that “a number of issues … need clarification.”
He warned that Russia would reject any watered-down version: “If the spirit and letter of Anchorage are erased from the key understandings that we have documented, then the situation will be fundamentally different,” Lavrov said, according to The Financial Times.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday declined to elaborate on Moscow’s position on the ongoing US-Ukrainian negotiations over a large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling the surrounding discourse an “information frenzy”.
“In the midst of this information frenzy, nothing can be commented on,” Peskov told reporters. “There’s a lot of conflicting information being published, conflicting statements and so on.”
Russian officials have largely avoided a detailed public response to weekend talks in Geneva, where US, European and Ukrainian officials discussed a revised US peace plan.
The “Trump framework” is still the basis, says the Kremlin
Despite declining specifics, Peskov emphasized that the original US 28-point peace framework remains the only substantive document under consideration.
“The original US design is the only thing that matters right now,” he said. “We believe that this could be a very good basis for talks…this is what our president said.”
Peskov called the plan “Trump’s framework.”
The original proposal was widely criticized for being in line with the Kremlin’s long-standing demands — including that Ukraine cede territory, halve its armed forces and adopt limits on long-range weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Friday that Moscow had received the 28-point proposal, but said it had not yet been discussed in detail with the US.
“I believe it could also create the basis for a final peace settlement,” Putin said. “But this text has not been discussed in detail with us.
Putin indicated that Washington had not secured Kiev’s consent.
“The reason is the same: the US administration has not yet managed to secure the consent of the Ukrainian side,” he said. “Ukraine and its European allies are still under the illusion that they can inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.”
Plan revised from 28 to 19 points
The Ukrainian representative said that the original 28-point proposal was reduced to 19 points after negotiations.
The White House said it was working to secure a deal after Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff drafted an earlier version — a proposal widely seen as highly favorable to Moscow.
US officials insisted the revised 19-point plan had input from Kiev and was shaped during Sunday’s meetings of top US and Ukrainian officials.
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