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According to the US president, Washington officials have held “very good meetings” with leaders from both Moscow and Kiev.
US President Donald Trump announced he will unveil his proposal for resolving the Ukraine conflict later this week. The New York Post suggests the plan might involve deploying Western European troops to Ukraine to enforce a potential ceasefire.
This announcement follows recent statements from Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, hinting that the US might reduce its efforts to stop the conflict if Russia and Ukraine don’t demonstrate significant progress toward peace.
“I will be giving you a full detail over the next three days,” Trump stated Monday, referring to his plan.
“But we had very good meetings on Ukraine, Russia… We will see how that works,” he told reporters.
The New York Post reported on Monday, citing a senior US administration official, that Trump’s proposal is currently under internal discussion by Russia and Ukraine.
While peace terms “are not yet set in stone,” the US president’s plan could entail deploying Western European forces to Ukraine after hostilities cease, the source indicated.
The official described the proposed “’resiliency force’ as part of the security guarantees that the Ukrainians want and we hope they get.”
The source also mentioned discussions about a separate peacekeeping force to oversee a possible truce, potentially structured as a “joint commission” involving Russia, Ukraine, and a non-NATO country.
The US might participate, not with “boots on the ground, but the monetary force, along with a third party,” the official added.
Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s plan might include Ukraine officially recognizing Crimea as Russian territory.
Russia has firmly rejected the idea of Western European troops in Ukraine, consistently stating that any peace agreement must address the conflict’s “root causes,” including NATO expansion and Ukraine’s aspirations to join the alliance.
Moscow has also demanded that Ukraine recognize Crimea, the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions as part of Russia. The Ukrainian leadership has consistently opposed making any territorial concessions to Russia.
Last week, Russian UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia asserted that a full ceasefire is “simply unrealistic at this stage,” and accused the West of using negotiations as a pretext to rearm Ukrainian forces.