A diplomatic snafu came from Kushner and Witkoff having a secret meeting with Kremlin minions that regurgitated the same Russian ‘maximalist demands’, with Trump ‘acting tough’ demanding that Ukraine agree by Thursday as though turkey pardoning depended on it. Same stuff, different day: give RU more land and surrender even more sovereignty with ambiguous NATO security demands. Pro tip: don’t leave Russian phrasing and language in actual documents if you’re claiming it’s a US plan.
Because of course it is:
US and Ukrainian officials indicated that the initially reported US-proposed 28-point peace plan is not final and is currently undergoing changes. US President Donald Trump stated on November 22 that the 28-point peace plan is not his final offer to Ukraine.[1] US Special Envoy to Ukraine General Keith Kellogg stated to Fox on November 23 that the peace plan is a “work in progress” and that there are issues that the parties must codify and explain further.[2] Kellogg stated that there likely needs to be an annex document outlining security guarantees for Ukraine. Kellogg stated that the United States does not want a repeat of the Budapest Memorandum or Minsk Agreements, Russian-preferable agreements that gave Ukraine vague security assurances in exchange for Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament in 1994 and a 2015 failed ceasefire protocol that greatly advantaged Russia and led to the full-scale invasion in 2022, respectively.
Russian officials and ultranationalist voices continued to reject any peace plan, including the initial US-proposed 28-point plan, that does not achieve Russia’s longstanding demands for the destruction of Ukrainian statehood and the weakening of the NATO alliance.
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As officials hold discussions in Switzerland, there are claims the 28 points on the peace plan were not from the Trump administration, but a Russian "wish list" drafted by a close ally of Vladimir Putin.
Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 22 to 23.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 98 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other drones, of which about 60 were Shahed-type drones, from the directions of Oryol and Kursk cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; and occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea.[121] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 69 drones, that 27 drones hit 12 locations, and that the strikes were ongoing as of 0830 local time. Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces struck residential, civilian, and industrial infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk oblasts.[122]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on November 23 that Russian forces launched over 1,050 drones, almost 1,000 guided glide bombs, and over 60 missiles during the week (roughly November 17 to 23).[123]
Overnight, Russia launched 98 attack drones from multiple directions, including about 60 Shaheds. Ukrainian air defenses shot down or jammed 69 of them. Hits were recorded in 12 locations across the north, south, and east.
Ukrainian forces likely struck energy infrastructure in Moscow Oblast on the night of November 22 to 23. Russian opposition outlet Astra reported that drones struck the Shatura State Raion Power Plant in Shatura, Moscow Oblast, likely causing the power plant’s power distribution unit to catch fire.[35] Geolocated footage and imagery published on November 23 show large plumes of smoke and fires at the Shatura State Raion Power Plant.[36] Moscow Oblast Governor Andrei Vorobyov acknowledged that drones struck the plant and that a fire broke out at the facility but claimed that the strikes did not disrupt the power supply.[37]
- US and Ukrainian officials indicated that the initially reported US-proposed 28-point peace plan is not final and is currently undergoing changes.
- European leaders are reportedly working on a counterproposal to the initial US-proposed 28-point peace plan.
- Russian officials and ultranationalist voices continued to reject any peace plan, including the initial US-proposed 28-point plan, that does not achieve Russia’s longstanding demands for the destruction of Ukrainian statehood and the weakening of the NATO alliance.
- The Kremlin is aggrandizing recent Russian military activity to push Ukraine and the West to surrender the territory in Donetsk Oblast that Russian forces are unlikely to seize without several years of campaigning.
- The situation in the Pokrovsk direction remains serious and dynamic as Russian forces continue to advance to close the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad pocket and Ukrainian forces continue counterattacks.
- Ukrainian forces are also conducting tactical-level air interdiction lines of effort against Russian logistics that support the Pokrovsk effort.
- Russian forces recently advanced near Lyman, Pokrovsk, in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.
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