Finland’s FM criticises US “peace plan” for Ukraine

Finland’s Foreign Minister and current Chairperson of the OSCE, Elina Valtonen, has sharply criticised the US “peace plan” to end the Russia-Ukraine war, as reported by Western media, Yle reports.

Valtonen said that if the plan is as described in the media, its conditions would be unacceptable both for Ukraine and for its European partners.

“They look as if they were written in Moscow. They seem to completely and unequivocally ‘wipe the UN Charter off the table’,” the minister emphasised.

She added that Finland and its partners are committed to achieving a fair and sustainable peace in Ukraine and have been working toward this goal for the past four years.

US President Donald Trump's administration advanced a renewed push for a peace plan to end Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, building on earlier diplomatic efforts like the August 15, 2025, Anchorage summit between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

A White House official said the "secret" plan consists of 28 points and White House officials consulted with the Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Ukrainian officials while preparing it. This is the plan that senior members of the Trump administration have been secretly working on over the past several weeks. According to the official, the plan was drafted by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

A senior administration official confirmed Trump approved the plan on November 18, but it was developed without broad input from Congress or European allies, catching supporters like Sen. Lindsey Graham off guard.

The WP writes that the new settlement plan includes several concessions that Zelenskyy “will find difficult to approve, including a significant loss of territory and strict limits on Ukraine’s military.”

By Khagan Isayev