EXPLAINED: Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan a Gift for Putin? Kyiv Warns U.S Is Handing Moscow a Victory

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A political firestorm is erupting as Donald Trump unveils a controversial 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine — a plan critics say hands Vladimir Putin everything he wants while leaving Ukraine weakened, exposed, and stripped of key defenses.  Human rights expert Kenneth Roth warns that the proposal compromises Ukraine’s sovereignty, forces territorial surrender, slashes Ukraine’s military strength, offers skewed election demands, and even hints at amnesty for Russian war crimes.  With limits placed on Ukraine but not on Russia, the plan is being called a strategic victory for the Kremlin and a direct threat to Ukraine’s democracy and long-term security.     #TrumpUkrainePlan #UkrainePeacePlan #GiftToPutin #PutinWins #UkraineSovereignty #TrumpPutin #UkraineConflict #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #TrumpForeignPolicy #UkraineSecurity #Donetsk #Kherson #Zaporizhzhia #BreakingNews #PoliticalAnalysis #USRussia #UkraineDemocracy #WarCrimes #ICC

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00:00Donald Trump's leaked 28-point peace plan for Ukraine has shocked Kyiv and many European

00:22leaders who say it hands Russian President Vladimir Putin nearly everything he has been

00:28fighting for since 2014 Trump presents the document as a bold path to peace but its terms

00:36heavily mirror the demands Russia made at the height of its military confidence in 2022 here's

00:44what the plan does the plan forces Ukraine to give up large parts of Donetsk including the crucial

00:52fortress belt that has slowed Russia for years while freezing the front lines in Kherson and

00:59Zaprazesia in a way that allows Russia to keep its gains it also requires Ukraine to shrink its army

01:07to 600,000 troops blocks future NATO membership bans foreign forces from stationing in Ukraine

01:15demands rushed elections within 100 days and uses language that echoes Russian propaganda about Nazi

01:24ideology meanwhile Russia faces no troop limits no territorial concessions and would see sanctions

01:33lifted and international legitimacy restored even more alarming the plan proposes an amnesty for Russian

01:41war crimes from the bombing of civilian infrastructure to the kidnapping of Ukrainian children signaling that

01:48Moscow could escape responsibility entirely the reactions to the plan reveal a striking contradiction

01:57President Volodymyr Zelensky who cannot afford to lose American weapons called the document a vision rather

02:05than a final proposal but warned Ukrainians that it forces a choice between protecting the nation's dignity

02:13or maintaining its relationship with its most important ally Trump in contrast dismissed the idea of negotiation

02:21altogether saying Zelensky will have to like it and if not they should just keep fighting Putin however welcomed the plan

02:30immediately saying it could form the basis of a final peace settlement and praising the flexibility shown by Trump

02:39when the invader praises a peace plan and the invaded fears it it becomes painfully clear which side benefits

02:48for many analysts the plan is unmistakably pro-Russia it gives Moscow strategic territory that its exhausted military

02:57has been unable to seize weakens Ukraine's defensive capacity blocks Ukraine from fully joining the west

03:05and offers the Kremlin an easy path to regroup and launch a future offensive toward Kyiv it removes economic

03:14pressure from Russia by lifting sanctions and offers no meaningful deterrence against another invasion

03:21even the plan's idea of a demilitarized zone in Ukrainian held parts of Donbass mirrors Russia's older playbook

03:29of infiltrating regions with disguised militias and staging fake uprisings in the end Russia gains land

03:38security advantages economic relief and political legitimacy while Ukraine is left smaller more vulnerable

03:46and far less able to defend itself that is why many argue that under this plan Zelensky loses the war before

03:55negotiations even begin accepting Trump's framework would force Ukraine to surrender strategic regions

04:03dismantle parts of its military power and endure chaotic elections that could fracture its government

04:10and it would give Putin everything he needs to rebuild his army and potentially attack again

04:18Trump's 28-point proposal does not deliver peace it delivers capitulation it's a gift wrapped neatly for

04:26the Kremlin leaving Ukraine weaker than at any point since the war began

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