Off The Record
Zelensky Dismisses Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan With Four Sharp Words
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, has issued a harsh critique of Donald Trump’s suggested peace proposal to settle the conflict with Russia.
Supported by Trump’s envoy General Keith Kellogg, the proposed framework would require Ukraine to make broad concessions, including the ceding of Crimea and a sizable portion of the occupied territories of Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhia.
Ukraine would keep a portion of Kherson in the north in exchange for access to the Dnipro River. The United States would take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
But for Zelensky, the plan was dead on arrival, and the Ukrainian president dismissed the seven-point US-brokered proposal with just four words: “This violates our Constitution.”
The plan has drawn strong resistance in Kyiv and has been referred to as Trump’s “final offer” by US officials.
In addition to the land losses, the agreement would remove all U.S. sanctions on Russia and prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. The package also included a proposed minerals agreement between the United States and Ukraine.
“There is nothing to talk about. This violates our Constitution. This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine,” he said, per Al Jazeera.
Zelensky warned that conceding any territory would only embolden the Kremlin: “As soon as talks about Crimea and our sovereign territories begin, the talks enter the format that Russia wants — prolonging the war – because it will not be possible to agree on everything quickly. We know where these signals are sounding and will continue to sound.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Vice President JD Vance has taken a more aggressive tone, suggesting that America’s patience is running out. Speaking from India, he issued a blunt ultimatum, per the Daily Express: “It’s time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process.”
The VPOTUS added, “The current lines, somewhere close to them is where you’re ultimately, I think, going to draw the new lines in the conflict.”
Despite Kyiv’s strong opposition, Trump’s team is making progress. Trump supporters verified that Steve Witkoff would go to Moscow to personally submit the idea to President Vladimir Putin if Ukraine approved it.
However, there are indications of internal conflict. Following US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision to travel to Moscow, high-level negotiations between the US, Ukraine, France, Germany, and the UK that were scheduled to take place in London have been lowered. Steve Witkoff, the ambassador, also chose not to go. The American delegation is now led by General Kellogg.
Zelensky, however, emphasized his country’s commitment to a peaceful resolution, writing on Telegram: “Ukraine has repeatedly said that it does not exclude any of the formats that can lead to a ceasefire and further to real peace. Stopping the killings is the number one task.”
However, his demands are still unwavering: no coerced neutrality, no territorial concession, and no reversal of the harm caused by Russia’s invasion.
As discussions continue under the cloud of concessions and ultimatums, the French presidency has backed Ukraine’s stance, reaffirming that “any peace deal must include respect for Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty.”
Ukraine’s message is unwavering for now, and the conflict over borders is still being fought at the negotiating table as well as on the map.
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