{"id":108301,"date":"2025-12-24T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=108301"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:48:46","slug":"zelensky-says-ukrainian-withdrawal-from-the-east-possible-in-latest-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=108301","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says Ukrainian withdrawal from the East possible in latest peace plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky has given details of an updated peace plan that offers Russia the potential withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the east that Moscow has demanded.<\/p>\n

Giving details of the 20-point plan agreed by US and Ukrainian negotiators in Florida at the weekend, Zelensky said the Russians would give their response once the Americans had spoken to them.<\/p>\n

Describing the plan as \u201cthe main framework for ending the war\u201d Zelensky said it proposed security guarantees from the US, Nato and Europeans for a co-ordinated military response if Russia invaded Ukraine again.<\/p>\n

On the key question of Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donbas, Zelensky said a \u201cfree economic zone\u201d was a potential option.<\/p>\n

He told journalists that as Ukraine was against withdrawal, US negotiators were looking to establish a demilitarised zone or a free economic zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two options,\u201d Zelensky said, \u201ceither the war continues, or something will have to be decided regarding all potential economic zones.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 20-point plan is seen as an update of an original 28-point document, agreed by US envoy Steve Witkoff with the Russians several weeks ago, which was widely seen as heavily geared towards the Kremlin\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

The Russians have insisted that Ukraine pulls out of almost a quarter of its own territory in the eastern Donetsk region in return for a peace deal. The rest is already under Russian occupation.<\/p>\n

Sensitive issues including questions over territory would have to be resolved \u201cat the leaders\u2019 level\u201d, but the new draft would provide Ukraine with strong security guarantees and a military strength of 800,000, Zelensky explained.<\/p>\n

Much of the updated plan resembles what came out of recent talks in Berlin involving US negotiators Witkoff and Jared Kushner with Ukrainian and European leaders. The setting then moved to Miami last weekend where US President Donald Trump\u2019s team spoke separately to Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev and then Ukrainian and European officials.<\/p>\n

There now appears to be far more detail on the territorial issue, although it is clear the Ukrainian side was unable to reach a consensus.<\/p>\n

If Ukraine was prepared to pull its heavy forces back by five, 10 or 40km in the 25% of Donetsk it still holds to create a \u201cfree economic zone\u201d, making it virtually demilitarised, then Zelensky explained Russian would have to do the same \u201caccordingly by five, 10, or 40km\u201d.<\/p>\n

He emphasised that an economic zone would also have to be set up around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant currently occupied by Russia, and that Russian troops would have to pull out of four other Ukrainian regions \u2013 Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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