Overview

• Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s peace envoy, is reported to have presented the model to Russian negotiators ahead of their Alaska summit
• Under the plan Russia would exercise military and economic control over occupied regions while Ukraine’s borders remain officially unchanged
• Kyiv has rejected any territorial concessions and Ukrainian constitutional rules bar ceding land without a nationwide referendum
• The analogy draws on Israel’s West Bank occupation, which the ICJ deemed illegal and remains unrecognized by the UN General Assembly
• The White House has characterized the upcoming Trump–Putin meeting as a “listening exercise” with no formal agreement on the proposal