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Made in Moscow: The "U.S. peace plan" for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Dmitriev
This article confirms what many on DU have been saying, but clarifies some matters and offers interesting insights into the behind-the-scenes dynamics, including the context of the two phone calls leaked to Bloomberg. I doubt it'll be the last word in the unravelling of these plots.
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Christo Grozev, Michael Weiss
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controversial conditions were contained in a document that sources discussed with The Insider several months ago. Now, as Donald Trump's Thanksgiving Day deadline for a decision from Volodymyr Zelensky approaches, fresh leaks show how the details of the plan were discussed — in conversations between Russian and American representatives, and amongst high-ranking Russian officials themselves. Kyiv, for its part, has shown a willingness to accept most of the points contained in the original document while calling for negotiations around several of the “peace plan's” transparently unacceptable clauses.
The 28-point plan adopted by the Trump White House for ending the war in Ukraine, allegedly written by American negotiators with “input” from Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a Kremlin insider, is in fact at its core a recycled Russian document that The Insider was shown several months ago by a source close to the Russian government.
As reported by Axios and the Wall Street Journal, the 28-point U.S. plan, which was heavily tilted toward Moscow, has caused an international crisis amid fears that the Trump administration is pushing a pro-Russian agenda while attempting to force Ukraine to capitulate. The document was said to be a monthlong joint effort by three figures: U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Dmitriev.
A number of key concepts of the plan that leaked to the U.S. press on Nov. 18 are in fact pulled from the prior draft, which was written by Dmitriev not long after Trump returned to the White House in late January 2025. They include:
* De facto U.S. recognition of Russian-occupied Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk (seen as a Russian climb-down from the more binding de jure recognition of those territories);
* A freezing of territories along the current contact line in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions;
* A sequenced process for lifting sanctions on Russia;
* Acceptance of Ukraine into the European Union;
* Permanent exclusion of Ukraine from NATO;
* A prohibition on Western or NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine;
* A scheme whereby the U.S. profits from frozen Russian assets held by the European Union while also investing in postwar Ukraine, as well as an invitation to the US to invest in Russia.
The most uncanny similarity concerns that last point:
“$100 billion in frozen Russian assets will be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine,” the 28-point plan reads. “The US will receive 50% of the profits from this venture. Europe will add $100 billion to increase the amount of investment available for Ukraine's reconstruction. Frozen European funds will be unfrozen.”
https://theins.press/en/politics/287159
Christo Grozev, Michael Weiss
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controversial conditions were contained in a document that sources discussed with The Insider several months ago. Now, as Donald Trump's Thanksgiving Day deadline for a decision from Volodymyr Zelensky approaches, fresh leaks show how the details of the plan were discussed — in conversations between Russian and American representatives, and amongst high-ranking Russian officials themselves. Kyiv, for its part, has shown a willingness to accept most of the points contained in the original document while calling for negotiations around several of the “peace plan's” transparently unacceptable clauses.
The 28-point plan adopted by the Trump White House for ending the war in Ukraine, allegedly written by American negotiators with “input” from Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a Kremlin insider, is in fact at its core a recycled Russian document that The Insider was shown several months ago by a source close to the Russian government.
As reported by Axios and the Wall Street Journal, the 28-point U.S. plan, which was heavily tilted toward Moscow, has caused an international crisis amid fears that the Trump administration is pushing a pro-Russian agenda while attempting to force Ukraine to capitulate. The document was said to be a monthlong joint effort by three figures: U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Dmitriev.
A number of key concepts of the plan that leaked to the U.S. press on Nov. 18 are in fact pulled from the prior draft, which was written by Dmitriev not long after Trump returned to the White House in late January 2025. They include:
* De facto U.S. recognition of Russian-occupied Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk (seen as a Russian climb-down from the more binding de jure recognition of those territories);
* A freezing of territories along the current contact line in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions;
* A sequenced process for lifting sanctions on Russia;
* Acceptance of Ukraine into the European Union;
* Permanent exclusion of Ukraine from NATO;
* A prohibition on Western or NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine;
* A scheme whereby the U.S. profits from frozen Russian assets held by the European Union while also investing in postwar Ukraine, as well as an invitation to the US to invest in Russia.
The most uncanny similarity concerns that last point:
“$100 billion in frozen Russian assets will be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine,” the 28-point plan reads. “The US will receive 50% of the profits from this venture. Europe will add $100 billion to increase the amount of investment available for Ukraine's reconstruction. Frozen European funds will be unfrozen.”
https://theins.press/en/politics/287159
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