Vladimir Putin has backed Donald Trump’s controversial 28-point peace plan for Ukraine.
The Russian president addressed members of the security council in Moscow this evening on a ‘modernised version’ of proposals first drawn up before their meeting in Alaska earlier this year.
Losing areas Ukraine controls, an immediate ceasefire, no Nato membership, and $100,000,000,000 in frozen assets being invested into rebuilding the country, are just some of the key details within the US’s plan.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who has held calls with allies from Europe and Nato, earlier said he wouldn’t betray his country, adding it is ‘at one of the most difficult moments’ in its history.
Zelensky also held an hour-long phone call with US vice-president JD Vance.
Tonight, Putin told his security council: ‘President Trump’s peace plan for settling the situation in Ukraine was discussed before the meeting in Alaska.
‘In the course of that discussion, the American side asked us to make certain compromises and show flexibility, as they said.
‘During the talks in Anchorage, we confirmed that despite certain complex issues and difficulties for us, we still confirmed that we agree with these proposals.
‘I believe that is the reason why a new, in essence modernised version of the plan appeared, now compromising 28 points. We have its text.
‘I believe that it, too, can form the basis of final peace settlement.’
