The Trump administration’s 28-point draft proposal to lastly finish Russia’s invasion into Ukraine would require Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s authorities to make important concessions — but additionally consists of NATO-style safety ensures for Ukraine, based on a senior U.S. official.
The plan, which remains to be a draft and will change, was offered in Kyiv earlier Thursday. (See the complete draft beneath)
The plan was drafted by Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff with enter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the White Home press secretary and a senior U.S. administration official confirmed Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outdoors the West Wing of the White Home on October 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. President Trump, contemporary off a ceasefire settlement between Israel and Hamas, is internet hosting President Zelensky for a bilateral lunch within the Cupboard Room in hopes of advancing a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
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The plan would drive Kyiv to surrender further territory within the east, cap the dimensions of its army and agree it is going to by no means be part of NATO, amongst quite a lot of different objects that shall be painful for the war-torn nation to swallow.
Regardless that the Trump administration plan requires important concessions from Ukraine, one of many safety ensures that shall be supplied to Ukraine is modeled on the ideas of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Beneath the proposed plan, the U.S. and European allies would view an assault on Ukraine as an assault on the “transatlantic neighborhood,” based on a senior U.S. administration official.
Axios first reported particulars of the draft plan.
Steve Witkoff, U.S. Particular Envoy to the Center East, speaks in the course of the America Enterprise Discussion board at Kaseya Middle in Miami, Florida, U.S. November 6, 2025.
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Formally, the 28-point peace plan notes that “Ukraine will obtain dependable safety ensures.”
The senior official confirmed that a kind of safety ensures is a NATO-style safety assure, which suggests the U.S. and its allies may reply with army drive if Russia assaults Ukraine sooner or later.
That may very well be seen as an enormous, unprecedented win for Ukraine and Zelenskyy, who has, for years, sought long-term, collective protection safety from NATO allies.
The plan was offered to Zelenskky on Thursday, the U.S. official stated.
“This plan was drawn up instantly following discussions with one of the vital senior members of President Zelensky’s administration, Rustem Umerov, who agreed to nearly all of the plan, after making a number of modifications, and offered it to President Zelensky,” the senior U.S. administration official stated to ABC Information.
US President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) within the Cupboard Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, on October 17, 2025.
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White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in an announcement supplied to ABC Information that the plan displays the complicated state of affairs and that each Russia and Ukraine will achieve greater than they’ll give.
“Because the Trump Administration has clearly stated, any deal should present full safety ensures and deterrence for Ukraine, Europe, and Russia to make sure the tip of the conflict, along with monetary alternatives for Ukraine to rebuild, and for Russia to rejoin the worldwide economic system, to profit the folks in each international locations,” Leavitt stated within the assertion. “This plan was crafted to mirror the realities of the state of affairs…to search out one of the best win-win state of affairs, the place each events achieve greater than they need to give.”
In his night tackle on Thursday, Zelenskyy stated he had a “very critical dialog” with U.S. officers who laid out what he referred to as a “imaginative and prescient” for ending the conflict.
In his remarks, Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine wants an actual peace that will not be damaged.
“I outlined what’s basically essential for us. And we agreed that the groups will work on these proposals – in order that it’s actual,” Zelenkskyy stated in his tackle. “We is not going to make harsh statements and are dedicated to clear, trustworthy work – Ukraine, america and our associates and companions in Europe and the world.”
The complete plan, based on a draft obtained by ABC Information:
1. Ukraine’s sovereignty shall be confirmed.
2. A complete non-aggression settlement shall be concluded between Russia, Ukraine and Europe. All ambiguities of the final 30 years shall be thought of settled.
3. It’s anticipated that Russia is not going to invade neighboring international locations and NATO is not going to increase additional.
4. A dialogue shall be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by america, to resolve all safety points and create situations for de-escalation with the intention to guarantee international safety and enhance alternatives for cooperation and future financial improvement.
5. Ukraine will obtain dependable safety ensures.
6. The dimensions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shall be restricted to 600,000 personnel.
7. Ukraine agrees to enshrine in its structure that it’s going to not be part of NATO, and NATO agrees to incorporate in its statutes a provision that Ukraine is not going to be admitted sooner or later.
8. NATO agrees to not station troops in Ukraine.
9. European fighter jets shall be stationed in Poland.
10. The U.S. assure:
— The U.S. will obtain compensation for the assure;
— If Ukraine invades Russia, it is going to lose the assure;
— If Russia invades Ukraine, along with a decisive coordinated army response, all international sanctions shall be reinstated, recognition of the brand new territory and all different advantages of this deal shall be revoked;
— If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or St. Petersburg with out trigger, the safety assure shall be deemed invalid.
11. Ukraine is eligible for EU membership and can obtain short-term preferential entry to the European market whereas this challenge is being thought of.
12. A robust international bundle of measures to rebuild Ukraine, together with however not restricted to:
— The creation of a Ukraine Improvement Fund to spend money on fast-growing industries, together with expertise, knowledge facilities, and synthetic intelligence.
— The USA will cooperate with Ukraine to collectively rebuild, develop, modernize, and function Ukraine’s gasoline infrastructure, together with pipelines and storage amenities.
— Joint efforts to rehabilitate war-affected areas for the restoration, reconstruction and modernization of cities and residential areas.
— Infrastructure improvement.
— Extraction of minerals and pure assets.
— The World Financial institution will develop a particular financing bundle to speed up these efforts.
13. Russia shall be reintegrated into the worldwide economic system:
— The lifting of sanctions shall be mentioned and agreed upon in phases and on a case-by-case foundation.
— The USA will enter right into a long-term financial cooperation settlement for mutual improvement within the areas of power, pure assets, infrastructure, synthetic intelligence, knowledge facilities, uncommon earth metallic extraction tasks within the Arctic, and different mutually helpful company alternatives.
— Russia shall be invited to rejoin the G8.
14. Frozen funds shall be used as follows:
— $100 billion in frozen Russian property shall be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and spend money on Ukraine;
— The US will obtain 50% of the earnings from this enterprise. Europe will add $100 billion to extend the quantity of funding obtainable for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Frozen European funds shall be unfrozen. The rest of the frozen Russian funds shall be invested in a separate US-Russian funding car that may implement joint tasks in particular areas. This fund shall be geared toward strengthening relations and rising frequent pursuits to create a powerful incentive to not return to battle.
15. A joint American-Russian working group on safety points shall be established to advertise and guarantee compliance with all provisions of this settlement.
16. Russia will enshrine in regulation its coverage of non-aggression in the direction of Europe and Ukraine.
17. The USA and Russia will agree to increase the validity of treaties on the non-proliferation and management of nuclear weapons, together with the START I Treaty.
18. Ukraine agrees to be a non-nuclear state in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
19. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant shall be launched below the supervision of the IAEA, and the electrical energy produced shall be distributed equally between Russia and Ukraine — 50:50.
20. Each international locations undertake to implement academic packages in colleges and society geared toward selling understanding and tolerance of various cultures and eliminating racism and prejudice:
— Ukraine will undertake EU guidelines on spiritual tolerance and the safety of linguistic minorities.
— Each international locations will conform to abolish all discriminatory measures and assure the rights of Ukrainian and Russian media and training.
— All Nazi ideology and actions have to be rejected and prohibited.
21. Territories:
— Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk shall be acknowledged as de facto Russian, together with by america.
— Kherson and Zaporizhzhia shall be frozen alongside the road of contact, which can imply de facto recognition alongside the road of contact.
— Russia will relinquish different agreed territories it controls outdoors the 5 areas.
— Ukrainian forces will withdraw from the a part of Donetsk Oblast that they at present management, and this withdrawal zone shall be thought of a impartial demilitarized buffer zone, internationally acknowledged as territory belonging to the Russian Federation. Russian forces is not going to enter this demilitarized zone.
22. After agreeing on future territorial preparations, each the Russian Federation and Ukraine undertake to not change these preparations by drive. Any safety ensures is not going to apply within the occasion of a breach of this dedication.
23. Russia is not going to forestall Ukraine from utilizing the Dnieper River for industrial actions, and agreements shall be reached on the free transport of grain throughout the Black Sea.
24. A humanitarian committee shall be established to resolve excellent points:
— All remaining prisoners and our bodies shall be exchanged on an ‘all for all’ foundation.
— All civilian detainees and hostages shall be returned, together with youngsters.
— A household reunification program shall be applied.
— Measures shall be taken to alleviate the struggling of the victims of the battle.
25. Ukraine will maintain elections in 100 days.
26. All events concerned on this battle will obtain full amnesty for his or her actions in the course of the conflict and agree to not make any claims or take into account any complaints sooner or later.
27. This settlement shall be legally binding. Its implementation shall be monitored and assured by the Peace Council, headed by President Donald J. Trump. Sanctions shall be imposed for violations.
28. As soon as all events conform to this memorandum, the ceasefire will take impact instantly after either side retreat to agreed factors to start implementation of the settlement.
