Overview
- Ukrainian negotiators delivered a new Europe-aligned proposal to Washington on Wednesday, while a Ukrainian portal published what it said was a 20‑point draft with three accompanying papers.
- The reported terms would leave Crimea and large parts of Donetsk and Luhansk under Russian control, freeze current lines in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, and establish a neutral zone in parts of the Donbass.
- A separate paper described by the portal says the United States would commit that NATO will not expand and that Ukraine would not join, alongside Article 5–style security guarantees with France, Germany, Finland, Poland and the United Kingdom named as guarantors.
- Other reported elements include a $200 billion reconstruction fund drawn from EU‑frozen Russian assets to be administered by the United States, the removal of a blanket amnesty, permission for an EU accession track with a date mentioned, and early elections after a deal.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. is proposing a demilitarized special economic zone in eastern Ukraine, while the Kremlin claimed the capture of Siversk in Donetsk, a claim not immediately addressed by Kyiv.