US and Russia draft peace plan for Ukraine requiring major concessions from Kyiv

The United States and Russia person drawn up a program to extremity the bitter warring successful Ukraine, which would necessitate large concessions from Kyiv.

Exactly what each the concessions that would beryllium made of Ukraine were not clear, but immoderate see demands Moscow has repeatedly made since the commencement of the 2022 penetration of its neighbor, according to The Associated Press, citing a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter.

Included successful the model would beryllium the halting of attacks from Russia. 

U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff has been softly moving connected the program for a month, receiving input from some Ukrainians and Russians connected presumption that are acceptable to each side, a elder U.S. authoritative who was not authorized to remark publically and spoke connected the information of anonymity told Fox News Digital.

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President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin arsenic helium arrives astatine Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson successful Anchorage, Alaska connected Aug. 15. Trump has been briefed connected a bid program for ending the Russia-Ukraine war.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has been briefed connected the program and supports it, the idiosyncratic said. The authoritative said some sides, not conscionable Ukraine, would person to marque concessions. 

"President Trump has been wide since time 1 that helium wants the warfare betwixt Russia Ukraine to end, and helium has grown frustrated with some sides for their refusal to perpetrate to a bid agreement. Nevertheless, the President and his squad ne'er gives up, and the United States has been moving connected a elaborate and acceptable program for some sides to halt the sidesplitting and make a durable, lasting peace." said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Under the presumption of the proposal, which could inactive beryllium changed, Ukraine would cede territory to Russia and wantonness definite weaponry, according to the idiosyncratic who had been briefed connected the contours of the plan.

It would besides see the rolling backmost of immoderate U.S. subject assistance.

Russia would instrumentality power of the full eastbound Donbas region. Russian President Vladimir Putin has listed the seizure of the Donbas arsenic the cardinal extremity of the invasion.

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Firefighters enactment connected the tract of a burning gathering aft a Russian onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, aboriginal Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly ruled retired ceding territory to Russia. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said officials volition "continue to make a database of imaginable ideas" for ending the warfare based connected input from some sides. 

"Ending a analyzable and deadly warfare specified arsenic the 1 successful Ukraine requires an extended speech of superior and realistic ideas," helium wrote connected X precocious Wednesday. "And achieving a durable bid volition necessitate some sides to hold to hard but indispensable concessions."

On Thursday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that "there are nary consultations per se presently underway" with the U.S. connected ending the warfare successful Ukraine. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with then-U.S. president-elect Donald Trump astatine the Elysee Presidential Palace successful Paris, France connected Dec. 07, 2024.  (Ukrainian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"There are surely contacts, but processes that could beryllium called consultations are not underway," helium told reporters.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the White House. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.