00:00In a radical departure from traditional peace negotiations,
00:09the Trump administration has proposed an unprecedented arrangement
00:13in its 28-point Ukraine peace plan.
00:16Ukraine would lease the contested Donbass region to Russia,
00:20rather than permanently cede it.
00:22Under this scheme,
00:24Kyiv would retain legal ownership of the territory,
00:27primarily the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk,
00:30while granting Russia de facto control
00:32in exchange for an undisclosed rental payment.
00:36According to The Telegraph and other sources,
00:39this arrangement is specifically designed
00:41to circumvent Ukraine's constitutional requirement
00:44that any permanent territorial session
00:47must be approved by a nationwide referendum.
00:51By framing the arrangement as a lease rather than session,
00:55Trump's negotiators believe they can avoid
00:58the political and constitutional crisis
01:00that would inevitably result from a public vote
01:03on surrendering Ukrainian land.
01:05However, the plan contains additional provisions
01:09that effectively neutralise Ukrainian sovereignty.
01:12Russian becomes the official state language.
01:15The Russian Orthodox Church gains official status.
01:18Ukraine's military is halved to 400,000 personnel.
01:22Russian personnel.
01:23All long-range missiles are surrendered.
01:25Foreign troops are banned.
01:27U.S. military aid ceases.
01:29And foreign diplomatic aircraft cannot land.
01:31Ukraine's constitution explicitly forbids
01:36the permanent cession of territory
01:38without a nationwide referendum,
01:40a requirement that has become a political firewall
01:43against capitulation to Russia.
01:45The Trump plan exploits a legal loophole.
01:49Ukrainian constitutional court decisions from 2018 ruled that
01:54narrowing of Ukraine's sovereignty over certain territories
01:57through lease terms does not violate the Constitution's principle
02:01of territorial integrity.
02:03This precedent, originally established to allow NATO
02:06and other foreign militaries to use Ukrainian bases,
02:09now provides legal cover for a Russian territorial lease.
02:14Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has explicitly rejected
02:19the Trump administration's lease proposal.
02:22Multiple Ukrainian officials and government sources told Reuters
02:26and The Telegraph that Kyiv considers the plan unacceptable
02:30in its current form.
02:32Critically, Zelenskyy was scheduled to meet with U.S. Army Secretary
02:36Dan Driscoll and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff on November 20th in Kyiv.
02:41But the meeting was abruptly postponed.
02:44The lease proposal comes at a moment of maximum Russian advantage.
02:49Russia currently controls approximately 20% of Ukrainian territory,
02:53with recent defensive operations in the Donbass
02:56and around cities like Pokrovsk advancing steadily.
03:00If enacted, the lease plan would represent
03:02a historic precedent for great power conduct.
03:05The first major territorial arrangement in Europe since World War II,
03:10permitting military occupation under a rental scheme.
03:13Such an arrangement would likely destabilise European security architectures.
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