Trump approves new plan to end Russia-Ukraine war, pressures Zelenskyy to accept it Compilation of reports by NBC, WP, WSJ

U.S. President Donald Trump has already approved a plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, a senior White House official told NBC News.

The 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.

“The plan focuses on giving both sides security guarantees to secure a lasting peace,” the senior official told NBC News. “It includes things Ukraine wants and needs to have a durable peace.”

The White House official did not disclose further details of the plan, noting only that the document still requires discussion with Ukraine and Russia.

Moreover, three other U.S. officials told NBC News that the framework of the plan has not yet been presented to the Ukrainian authorities, and that the timing of the draft’s completion coincided with a visit by a U.S. Army delegation to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, a report by The Washington Post (WP) has stated the United States is increasing pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept the new plan.

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.”

The article reads that the Ukrainian president is also “weakened by a major corruption scandal.”

“… coupled with the exhausting pace of Russian military strikes — could leave the Ukrainian leader with few good options as U.S. officials exert greater pressure on him to accept a deal to end the war,” it says.

The authors of the piece consider a breakthrough in the settlement process “unlikely.” The Ukrainian side views some of the plan’s terms as unacceptable. One of the newspaper’s sources described the proposal as “a complete capitulation of Ukraine,” and Zelenskyy is not willing to agree to that.

Another report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reads that the new U.S. plan will push Ukraine to abandon its bid for NATO membership for at least several years.

The report says no international peacekeeping forces will be allowed to be stationed on Ukrainian territory. In return, Russia would commit not to attack Ukraine or other European countries.

Taking to social network X, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that both Russia and Ukraine must make “difficult but necessary concessions.”  

“Ending a complex and deadly war such as the one in Ukraine requires an extensive exchange of serious and realistic ideas. And achieving a durable peace will require both sides to agree to difficult but necessary concessions. That is why we are and will continue to develop a list of potential ideas for ending this war based on input from both sides of this conflict,” the post read.

By Khagan Isayev