Kremlin ready for talks about US plan – criticism of the EU

Ukraine war

Updated 11/24/2025 – 4:52 p.mReading time: 2 minutes

Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov, criticizes the European initiative on the US peace plan as “not constructive.” (archive image) (Source: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Pool via AP/dpa/dpa-bilder)

Moscow is still ready to talk about the peace plan for Ukraine that the USA sent to Russia. But the European initiative has already met with rejection.

According to the media, Russia considers the proposals made by leading Europeans for changes to US President Donald Trump’s peace plan to be “not constructive”. “It doesn’t suit us,” said Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov, according to the Russian agency Interfax. Ushakov was referring to the points published by the media that Germany, France, Great Britain and the EU leadership have been working on. It was not about the previously unknown plan that the USA and Ukraine prepared in Geneva.

Ushakov emphasized that Russia was dealing with what had been transmitted through official channels. He was referring to US President Donald Trump’s 28-point plan to end Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Russia is ready to discuss this draft with the US side and is waiting for a signal from Washington.

Ushakov said that the points put forward by Trump need to be considered in detail. Many, but not all, points are acceptable to Russia. So far, no one has spoken to Russia about this. Many Moscow demands appear to have been incorporated into the creation of this US plan. He has been criticized internationally for demanding more concessions from Ukraine than from Russia.

Putin described Trump’s plan on Friday as a basis for talks and a draft that reflected his previous discussions with Trump. The Kremlin chief also immediately expressed doubts that the EU and Ukraine would support the plan. Since then, there have been intensive discussions between the Ukrainians and European states and with US representatives on individual points. Putin made it clear that Russia could achieve its war goals on the battlefield.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described the Geneva negotiation result on the US plan to end Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine as a solid basis for further progress. Efficient and coordinated European engagement as well as a strong European presence in Geneva have made it possible to make good progress, she said after talks with European heads of state and government on the sidelines of an EU-Africa summit in Angola.