Russia’s spy chief: Kyiv, EU moving away from Trump peace plan

Kyiv and several European countries are seeking to distance themselves from proposals contained in US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, according to Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

Speaking in an interview with TASS, Naryshkin said that in recent weeks the Ukrainian authorities and their European partners had, in his view, moved away from what he described as reasonable compromises put forward in Trump’s initiative, Caliber.Az reports. 

He claimed that, in discussions with representatives of the US administration, they were presenting the plan as an attempt to impose agreements on Kyiv that would amount to concessions in favour of Russia.

Naryshkin argued that this position underestimated the frontline situation, which he said would ultimately determine the course of the conflict. He asserted that Ukraine’s armed forces would eventually lose the ability to conduct organised defence operations, leading to what he described as an unavoidable path toward a negotiated settlement.

The SVR director also said that Russia wanted Ukraine to return to “normal life,” but maintained that this would require Kyiv to abandon what he characterised as “neo-Nazi ideology.”

He then added that he believed Ukraine would, in the long term, return to “a path of normal civilisational development.”

By Sabina Mammadli